Subspecies Malurus (Leggeornis) assimilis assimilis North, 1901

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• Malurus assimilis North, A.J. 1901. Description of a new species of the Genus Malurus. Victorian Naturalist 18(2): 29-30 [Date published Jun 1901] [29].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM A.11885 adult ♂, NSW: Lachlan River, Mossgiel district; AM O.13546 adult ♂, NSW: Tindarey; AM O.17194 adult ♀, NSW: Tindarey.
• Malurus lamberti morgani Mathews, G.M. 1912. New birds. Austral Avian Records 1(5): 126 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [126].
• Malurus lamberti mungi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [360].
• Malurus lamberti occidentalis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [360] [senior to simultaneously published Malurus lamberti mungi Mathews, 1912 by action of first reviser (Mathews, Systema Avium Australasianarum (1930)624): ICdZN Art. 24.2].
• Malurus lamberti mastersi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [360].
• Leggeornis lamberti hartogi Mathews, G.M. 1918. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, November 13, 1918. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 39: 23-25 [24].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, lignum or cane grass swamp, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mangrove or mangal, mulga woodland, rocky hummock grassfield, sand-plain hummock grassfield, tropical eucalypt.

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