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The Vogelkop lophorina was given the binomial name Paradisea superba in 1781 in a book which has the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster on the title page. The binomial name is accompanied by a cite to a hand coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet that had been included in Edme-Louis Daubenton's Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle.
The genus Lophorina was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot for a single species, Paradisea superba, the Vogelkop lophorina. This is now the type species. [1] [2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" or "tuft" with rhis, rhinos meaning "nostrils. [3]
Vogelkop lophorina; L. Lesser lophorina; This page was last edited on 30 June 2018, at 14:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The greater lophorina (Lophorina latipennis), formerly a subspecies of the superb bird-of-paradise, is a species of passerine bird in the bird-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae. It is found in the central and northeast montane regions of New Guinea .
Illustration by J. Wolf and J. Smith. Only two adult male specimens are known of this bird, held in the British Natural History Museum (BMNH) and the Dresden Natural History Museum, and presumably deriving from the Vogelkop Peninsula of north-western New Guinea. [1]
The Bird's Head Peninsula (Indonesian: Kepala Burung, Dutch: Vogelkop, meaning Bird's Head in Indonesian and Dutch) or Doberai Peninsula (Semenanjung Doberai) is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indonesian provinces of Southwest Papua and West Papua. It is often referred to as The ...
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Vogelkop lophorina, Lophorina niedda (E) Greater lophorina, Lophorina superba; Magnificent riflebird, Ptiloris magnificus; Growling riflebird, Ptiloris intercedens; Black sicklebill, Epimachus fastuosus; Brown sicklebill, Epimachus meyeri; Long-tailed paradigalla, Paradigalla carunculata (E) Short-tailed paradigalla, Paradigalla brevicauda