Mallee Emuwren

Mallee Emuwren / Stipiturus mallee

Mallee Emuwren

Here the details of the Mallee Emuwren named bird below:

SCI Name:  Stipiturus mallee
Protonym:  Stipiturus mallee Emu 8 p.34
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Maluridae /
Taxonomy Code:  malemu1
Type Locality:  mallee, Victoria.
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Publish Year:  1908
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DEFINITIONS

STIPITURUS
(Maluridae; Ϯ Southern Emu-wren S. malachurus) L. stipes, stipitis  stem, branch; Gr. ουρα oura  tail; "CLXII.e Genre. QUEUE GAZÉE; Stipiturus:  Drymoica; Pars, Sw.  Bec court, mince, grêle; quelques poils à la base; tarses minces, grêles; ailes courtes, concaves. Queue composée de brins minces, filiformes, à barbes ciliées, au nombre de six.   QUEUE GAZÉE; Muscicapa malachura, Lath.; Malurus malachurus, Vig. et Horsf.; Levaill., pl. 130, fig. 1.  Du Port-Jackson. Fig. 2, femelle.  Le Wawgul-Jelly des naturels de Sidney." (Lesson 1831); "Stipiturus Lesson, 1831, Traité Ornith., livr. 6, p. 414. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa malachura Shaw." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 402).
Synon. Malacurus.

mallee
Mallee Region, north-western Victoria, Australia < Aboriginal name mallee for a type of eucalyptus scrub.