Blue-breasted Fairywren / Malurus pulcherrimus
WBN 
Blue-breasted Fairywren
SCI Name:
Protonym: Malurus pulcherrimus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt12 no.136 p.106
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Maluridae / Malurus
Taxonomy Code: blbfai1
Type Locality: Western Australia = Wongan Hills, southwestern Australia, fide Mathews, 1913, List Birds Australia, p. 227.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1844
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MALURUS
(Maluridae; Ϯ Superb Fairy-wren M. cyaneus) Gr. μαλος malos (properly αμαλος amalos) soft, delicate; ουρα oura tail; "MÉRION ... Queue longue, étagée, à rectrices minces à leur naissance, peu épaisses et dilatées à leur extrémité" (Vieillot 1831); "MÉRION, Malurus, Silvia, Lath. Motacilla, Lin. Gm. Bec très-grêle, droit, entier, très-court. — Bouche ciliée. — Tarses très-minces. — Doigts extérieurs réunis jusqu'à la deuxième phalange. — Ailes très-courtes. — Queue très-longue, grêle. Esp. Motacilla aut Sylvia, Cyanea, Gm. Lath. ... Malurus [μαλος, tener, ουρα, cauda]." (Vieillot 1816); "Malurus Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 44. Type, by monotypy, Motacilla cyanea Latham." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 391).
Var. Amalurus, Malacurus, Malums.
Synon. Devisornis, Leggeornis, Musciparus, Nesomalurus, Psitodos, Rosina, Ryania, Todopsis.
pulcherrima / pulcherrimus
L. pulcherrimus very beautiful < super. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Pigeon violet à tête rouge d’Antigue” of Sonnerat 1766 (Alectroenas).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
