Emperor Fairywren

SCI Name:  Malurus cyanocephalus
Protonym:  Todus cyanocephalus Voy.AstrolabeZool. 1 p.227 AtlasOis. pl.5 fig.4
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Maluridae / Malurus
Taxonomy Code:  empfai1
Type Locality:  Dorey (= Manokwari), northwestern New Guinea.
Author:  Quoy & Gaimard
Publish Year:  1830
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.

cyanocephalus
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.

Cyanocephalus
(Corvidae; syn. Gymnorhinus † Pinyon Jay G. cyanocephalus) Specific name Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus zu Wied, 1841; "di recente due nuove specie di Uccelli dell' America settentrionale, Zonotrichia comata, Wied, nei FRINGILLINI, e Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, Wied, nei GARRULINI, l'ultima delle quali costituisce un genere a sè, per cui mi veggo costretto a proporre il nome di Cyanocephalus come generico, quello datogli dal fondatore trovandosi già impiegato" (Bonaparte 1842) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Cyanocephalus Bonaparte, Oss. Stat. Zool. Eur. Vert., p. 17, 1842—type, by monotypy, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus Wied." (Hellmayr, 1934, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VII, p. 9).

SUBSPECIES

Emperor Fairywren (cyanocephalus)
SCI Name: Malurus cyanocephalus cyanocephalus
cyanocephalus
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.

Emperor Fairywren (mysorensis)
SCI Name: Malurus cyanocephalus mysorensis
mysorensis / mysoriense / mysoriensis
Mysori / Mysor / Mysore I., Geelvink Bay, Dutch New Guinea / Biak I., Papua, Indonesia.

Emperor Fairywren (bonapartii)
SCI Name: Malurus cyanocephalus bonapartii
bonapartii
Jules Laurent Lucien, later called Charles Lucien Jules Laurent 2^nd Prince of Canino and of Musignano and Prince Bonaparte (1803-1857) French ornithologist, taxonomist, collector (syn. Cardellina canadensis, syn. Cichlherminia lherminieri, syn. Hesperiphona vespertina, syn. Larus philadelphia, syn. Larus serranus, syn. Leptotila plumbeiceps, subsp. Malurus cyanocephalus, syn. Phoenicurus phoenicurus, syn. Poospiza hispaniolensis, subsp. Sarothrura rufa, syn. Smicrornis brevirostris, syn. Turdus viscivorus) (see bonapartei).