Species Malurus (Leggeornis) elegans Gould, 1837

Museums

Regional Maps

• Malurus elegans Gould, J. 1837. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1. [pl. 2] [officially available: ICmZN Opinion 410].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 859 ♂, Western Australia.
• Malurus elegans warreni Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [61].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, low sclerophyll heath, wet sclerophyll forest.

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Red-winged Fairy-wren)

History of changes