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
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://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.
