Species profile—Malurus assimilis (purple-backed fairy-wren)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Maluridae (fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens) → Malurus assimilis (purple-backed fairy-wren)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Maluridae (fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens)
- Scientific name
- Malurus assimilis North, 1901
- Common name
- purple-backed fairy-wren
- WildNet taxon ID
- 18459
- Synonym(s)
- Malurus assimilis assimilis
Malurus lamberti assimilis
Malurus lamberti - Alternate name(s)
- variegated fairy-wren
purple-backed fairywren - 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=18459.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
