Duivenbode's six-wired bird of paradise

Duivenbode's six-wired bird of paradise
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Species: Parotia sefilata

x Lophorina superba
Synonyms

Parotia duivenbodei Rothschild, 1900

The Duivenbode's six-wired bird of paradise, also known as Duivenbode's six-plumed bird of paradise,[1] is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid between a western parotia and superb bird of paradise. The common name commemorates Maarten Dirk van Renesse van Duivenbode (1804-1878), Dutch trader of naturalia on Ternate.

History

Two adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, coming from the Geelvink Bay region of north-western New Guinea, and held in the American Museum of Natural History and the French Natural History Museum.[2]

Notes

  1. Iredale (1950), p.45.
  2. Frith & Beehler (1998), pp.512-513.

References


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