Malurus pulcherrimus Gould, 1844
| Zoological Society (1845) Annals And Magazine of Natural History 15: 122-137 | |
| Description of a new species of the genus Malurus (1901) Victorian Naturalist 18: 29-30 | |
| A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia G M Mathews (1912) Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-446 | |
| Bird speciation on the Australian Continent A Keast (1961) Bulletin of The Museum of Comparative Zoology 123: 303-495 |