What is Maluridae?
{{Automatic Taxobox | name = Australasian wren | image = Superb blue Wren1.jpg | image_caption = Male [[superb fairywren]]<br/>(''Malurus cyaneus'', Maluridae) | image2 = Male-Songbird-Indicates-Body-Size-with-Low-Pitched-Advertising-Songs-pone.0056717.s005.oga | image2_caption = ''[[Malurus coronatus]]'' song | taxon = Maluridae | authority = [[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1831 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = | synonyms = }} '''Maluridae''' is a [[family (biology)|family]] of small, [[insectivorous]] [[passerine]] [[bird]]s [[endemic]] to [[Australia]] and [[New Guinea]]. Commonly known as 'wrens', they are unrelated to the [[wren|true wrens]] of the [[Northern Hemisphere]]. The family includes 15 [[species]] of fairywren, 3 emu-wrens, and 11 grasswrens. There are six [[genera]]. The Maluridae are one of the many bird families to have evolved from a great [[adaptive radiation]] of what were [[crows]] to new ecological opportunities in [[Australasia]]. Their closest relatives are the Meliphagidae ([[honeyeater]]s), and the [[Pardalotidae]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Barker |first=FK |author2=Barrowclough GF |author3=Groth JG |year=2002 |title=A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data |journal=Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B |volume=269 |pages=295–308 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2001.1883 |pmid=11839199 |issue=1488 |pmc=1690884}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Barker |first=FK |author2=Cibois A |author3=Schikler P |author4=Feinstein J |author5=Cracraft J |year=2004 |title=Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA |volume=101 |issue=30 |pages=11040–11045 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0401892101 |pmid=15263073 |pmc=503738 |bibcode=2004PNAS..10111040B |doi-access=free }}</ref> Their obvious similarity to the [[wren]]s of [[Europe]] and America is not [[genetic]], but simply the consequence of [[convergent evolution]] between more-or-less unrelated species that share the same [[ecologic