| Blue-capped ifrit | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Superfamily: | Corvoidea |
| Family: | Ifritidae Schodde & Christidis, 2014 |
| Genus: | Ifrita Rothschild, 1898 |
| Species: | I. kowaldi
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| Binomial name | |
| Ifrita kowaldi (De Vis, 1890)
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The blue-capped ifrit (Ifrita kowaldi), also known as the blue-capped ifrita, is a small and insectivorous passerine species currently placed in the monotypic family, Ifritidae.[2][3] Previously, the ifrit has been placed in a plethora of families including Cinclosomatidae or Monarchidae.[2] Blue-capped ifrits are considered an ancient relict species endemic to New Guinea. This corvoid species originally dates back to the Oligocene epoch, on a series of proto-Papuan islands, with minimal known evolutionary divergences.[4]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ifrita kowaldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22705379A94015555. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22705379A94015555.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ a b Schodde, Richard; Christidis, Les (2014-04-14). "Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal". Zootaxa. 3786 (5): 501–22. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3786.5.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 24869551.
- ^ Donaghey, Richard H. (2015-09-07). "Nest and egg of the Dimorphic Fantail Rhipidura brachyrhyncha and a review of clutch-sizes in New Guinean passerines". Australian Field Ornithology. 32 (2).
- ^ Jønsson, Knud Andreas; Borregaard, Michael Krabbe; Carstensen, Daniel Wisbech; Hansen, Louis A.; Kennedy, Jonathan D.; Machac, Antonin; Marki, Petter Zahl; Fjeldså, Jon; Rahbek, Carsten (2017-11-02). "Biogeography and Biotic Assembly of Indo-Pacific Corvoid Passerine Birds". Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 48 (1): 231–253. doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110316-022813. ISSN 1543-592X. S2CID 43763778.