Calamanthus
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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| image = Striated fieldwren, Tasmania.jpg
| image_caption = Striated fieldwren (Calamanthus fuliginosus)
| taxon = Calamanthus
| authority = Gould, 1838
| type_species = Praticola anthoides{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=170 |title= Acanthizidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}
| type_species_authority = Swainson, 1838
}}
Calamanthus is a genus of bird in the family Acanthizidae.
A poorly researched genus, the alliance has been recognised as a single species treatment (Schodde, 1975) and later two species or provisionally three separate species.{{cite book |last1=Christidis |first1=Les |last2=Boles |first2=Walter E. |title=Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds |date=2008 |publisher=Csiro Publishing |isbn=978-0-643-06511-6 |pages=161–62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SFP9P1i-PoEC&q=Calamanthus&pg=PA182 |language=en}}
Birds of the World: Recommended English Names lists the following three species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bristlebirds/ | publisher= | accessdate=21 January 2019 }}
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Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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120px | rufous fieldwren | Calamanthus campestris | Australia. |
120px | striated fieldwren | Calamanthus fuliginosus | Australia. |
Western fieldwren | Calamanthus montanellus | Australia. |
References
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Further reading
- Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. {{ISBN|978-84-96553-42-2}}
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Category:Endemic birds of Australia
Category:Taxa named by John Gould
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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