The rusty mouse-warbler (Origma murina), is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, in a 1,270,000 km² distribution.[3] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Rusty mouse-warbler
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Origma
Species:
O. murina
Binomial name
Origma murina
(Sclater, PL, 1858)
Subspecies[2]
  • O. m. murina (Sclater, PL, 1858)
  • O. m. monacha (Gray, GR, 1858)
  • O. m. pallida (Rand, 1938)
  • O. m. capitalis (Stresemann & Paludan, 1932)
Synonyms

Crateroscelis murina

This species was formerly placed in the genus Crateroscelis, but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens and mouse-warblers in 2018, it was moved to the genus Origma.[4][5]

References

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  1. BirdLife International. (2024). "Origma murina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024 e.T22704523A264317707. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22704523A264317707.en. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.
  3. "Rusty Mouse-warbler". datazone.birdlife.org.
  4. Norman, J.A.; Christidis, L.; Schodde, R. (2018). "Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 18 (2): 241–259. doi:10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8. S2CID 46967802.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 January 2019.