Subspecies Malurus (Musciparus) melanocephalus cruentatus Gould, 1840

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• Malurus cruentatus Gould, J. 1840. Letter to Chairman of the Scientific Committee, Zoological Society of London, read before meeting of the Society of Oct. 8, 1839. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1839: 139-145 [Date published Mar 1840: publication dated 1839] [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 881 ♂, NT: Port Essington.
• Malurus cruentatus boweri Ramsay, E.P. 1887. List of Western Australian birds collected by Mr Cairn, and Mr. W.H. Boyer-Bower, at Derby and its vicinity, with remarks on the species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 1085-1100 [publication dated 1886] [1100].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.18598 immature ♂, WA: Derby hinterland.
• Malurus melanocephalus melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [45].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt, tussock grassland.

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