Wilhelmina's bird-of-paradise | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Superfamily: | Corvoidea |
Family: | Paradisaeidae |
Hybrid: | Lophorina superba × Cicinnurus magnificus |
Synonyms | |
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Wilhelmina's bird-of-paradise, also known as Wilhelmina's riflebird, is a bird in the family
Paradisaeidae that
Erwin Stresemann proposed is an intergeneric
hybrid between a
greater lophorina and
magnificent bird-of-paradise, an identity since confirmed by
DNA analysis.
[1]
Three adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, held in the American Museum of Natural History, Royal Natural History Museum of the Netherlands, and the State Museum of Zoology, Dresden. Two of the specimens come from the Arfak Mountains of north-western New Guinea, while the other is of unknown provenance. The bird was named as a species by Adolf Bernhard Meyer in 1894 after Wilhelmina, his wife who joined him during his travels in 1870–1872. [2]
Wilhelmina's bird-of-paradise | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Superfamily: | Corvoidea |
Family: | Paradisaeidae |
Hybrid: | Lophorina superba × Cicinnurus magnificus |
Synonyms | |
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Wilhelmina's bird-of-paradise, also known as Wilhelmina's riflebird, is a bird in the family
Paradisaeidae that
Erwin Stresemann proposed is an intergeneric
hybrid between a
greater lophorina and
magnificent bird-of-paradise, an identity since confirmed by
DNA analysis.
[1]
Three adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, held in the American Museum of Natural History, Royal Natural History Museum of the Netherlands, and the State Museum of Zoology, Dresden. Two of the specimens come from the Arfak Mountains of north-western New Guinea, while the other is of unknown provenance. The bird was named as a species by Adolf Bernhard Meyer in 1894 after Wilhelmina, his wife who joined him during his travels in 1870–1872. [2]