Sharpe's Lobe-billed Parotia

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Sharpe’s Lobe-billed Parotia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Species: Paradigalla carunculata

x Parotia sefilata
Synonyms
  • Loborhamphus ptilorhis Sharpe, 1908

Sharpe’s Lobe-billed Parotia, also known as Sharpe’s Lobe-billed Riflebird, is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid between a Long-tailed Paradigalla and Western Parotia.

History

Only one subadult male specimen is known of this hybrid, held in the British Natural History Museum, presumably deriving from the Vogelkop Peninsula of north-western New Guinea. It is named after its describer, British ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.[1]

Notes

  1. Frith & Beehler (1998), p.513.

References

  • Frith, Clifford B.; & Beehler, Bruce M. (1998). The Birds of Paradise. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-854853-9. 


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