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Loborhamphus nobilis Rothschild

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History

Description

Loborhamphus nobilis Rothschild

Loborhamphus nobilis Rothschild, 1901: 34 (Dutch New Guinea).

Now considered a hybrid Lophorina superba X Paradigalla carunculata. See Rothschild and Hartert, 1903a: 65, 72–73, 89, pl. 1; Rothschild, 1911: 357; Hartert, 1919: 129; Stresemann, 1930: 12; Mayr, 1962d: 203; Gilliard, 1969: 63–65; Fuller, 1995: 42–49; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 510–511, pl. 14 (5).

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679113, [adult male], purchased from van Renesse van Duiven-

bode, collected somewhere in Papua Province, Indonesia (formerly Dutch New Guinea). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When Loborhamphus nobilis was described, Rothschild had the single specimen. Only later did he (Rothschild, 1907b: 25) obtain a second specimen (AMNH 679114), but this was not part of his type series.

Parentage of this putative hybrid is less certain than in most other cases.

Notes

Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 110, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 679113
Scientific name authorship
Rothschild
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Ptilonorhynchidae
Genus
Loborhamphus
Species
nobilis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Rothschild, W. 1901. [The Hon. Walter Rothschild also described a remarkable new bird of paradise …]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 12: 34 - 35.
  • Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1903 a. Notes on Papuan birds. VII. Paradiseidae. Novitates Zoologicae 10: 65 - 89.
  • Rothschild, W. 1911. On recently described Paradiseidae, with notes on some other new species. Ibis (9) 5: 350 - 367, pls. V and VI.
  • Hartert, E. 1919. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 123 - 178.
  • Stresemann, E. 1930. Welche Paradiesvogelarten der Literatur sind Hybriden ursprungs? Novitates Zoologicae 36: 6 - 15.
  • Mayr, E. 1962 d. Family Paradisaeidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). 1962. Checklist of birds of the world, 15: 181 - 204. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
  • Gilliard, E. T. 1969. Birds of paradise and bower birds. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, xxii + 485 pp, pls, 32 photographs.
  • Fuller, E. 1995. The lost birds of paradise. Shrewsbury, UK: Swan Hill Press, 160 pp, 50 pls., 58 figs.
  • Frith, C. B., and B. M. Beehler. 1998. The birds of paradise Paradisaeidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxx + 613 pp, 15 pls, black-and-white illustrations, maps, sonograms.
  • Rothschild, W. 1907 b. [Mr. Rothschild subsequently exhibited …]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 21: 25.