Species profile—Malurus splendens (splendid fairy-wren)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Maluridae (fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens) → Malurus splendens (splendid fairy-wren)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Maluridae (fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens)
- Scientific name
- Malurus splendens (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)
- Common name
- splendid fairy-wren
- Type reference
- Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. In Dumont-d'Urville, J. (1830). Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1 i 268 pp.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1548
- Synonym(s)
- Malurus splendens melanotis
Malurus splendens emmottorum - Alternate name(s)
- splendid fairy-wren (black-backed subspecies)
splendid fairywren
turquioise fairy-wren
superb warbler
splendid wren
black-backed blue wren
banded wren
black-backed fairy wren - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1548
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
