See text The western grasswren (Amytornis textilis), formerly known as the textile wren, is a species of bird in the family Maluridae.

[3] The species, indeed the genus, was first collected in 1818 on Shark Bay’s Peron Peninsula, in northwest Western Australia, by Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard, naturalists with Louis de Freycinet's circumnavigational exploring expedition in the French corvette Uranie.

Although the original specimen was apparently lost with the shipwreck of the Uranie in the Falkland Islands, it had been illustrated by expedition artist Jacques Arago and was described (as Malurus textilis) by Charles Dumont in 1824.

The range of the nominate subspecies, which used to inhabit inland locations, has contracted westwards to the Shark Bay region since 1910.

Its preferred habitat is low, often Acacia dominated, semiarid shrubland, no more than a metre in height, that forms densely foliaged clumps and thickets.