Subspecies Malurus (Malurus) splendens splendens (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Saxicola splendens Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. in Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1830. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les anneés 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1 i 268 pp. [no month of publication] [197].
• Malurus pectoralis Gould, J. 1833. Untitled. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1833(1): 106-107 [Date published 18 Nov 1833] [106] [junior primary homonymy of Malurus pectoralis Stephens, 1826 (= Dasyornis brachypterus (Latham, 1802), Acanthizidae)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP (two syntypes missing from ANSP collection), Western Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129-180 [Date published 28 Feb 1913] [165] (remarks on the two missing syntypes).
• Malurus splendens riordani Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List. Austral Avian Records 1(5): 118-120 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [119].
• Malurus splendens perthi Mathews, G.M. 1922. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby Vol. 10. [Date published 28 Sep 1922] [73].

Generic Combinations

• Malurus (Malurus) splendens splendens (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, temperate eucalypt.

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