Wonderful bird-of-paradise

Hybrid bird
Wonderful bird-of-paradise
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Superfamily: Corvoidea
Family: Paradisaeidae
Hybrid: Seleucidis melanoleuca × Paradisaea minor
Synonyms
  • Paradisaea mirabilis Reichenow, 1901
  • Janthothorax mirabilis Rothschild, 1903
  • Quesoparens mirabilis [1]


The wonderful bird-of-paradise, also known as Reichenow's riflebird,[2] is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid between a twelve-wired bird-of-paradise and lesser bird-of-paradise.

History

Five adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, held in the American Museum of Natural History and the Berlin Natural History Museum and coming from Sorong in the Vogelkop Peninsula of north-western New Guinea, Madang on the north-eastern coast of New Guinea, as well as other unknown localities.[2][3]

Notes

  1. ^ Iredale (1950), p.v.
  2. ^ a b Iredale (1950), p.56.
  3. ^ Frith & Beehler (1998), p.516.

References

  • Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. (1998). The Birds of Paradise. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-854853-9.
  • Iredale, Tom (1950). Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds. Melbourne: Georgian House.
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Birds-of-paradise (family: Paradisaeidae)
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Lycocorax
Manucodia
Paradigalla
Astrapia
Parotia
Pteridophora
Lophorina
Ptiloris
Epimachus
Drepanornis
Cicinnurus
Semioptera
Seleucidis
Paradisaea
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