Paradisea

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2005, The type specimens of Paradisaeidae, Cnemophilidae and Ptilonorhynchidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde of the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Zootaxa 1072 (1), pp. 1-25 : 20-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1072.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DEC2A179-E8BE-4316-8E01-43EDAC7C11C2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039EC431-FFBD-FF8F-3266-14F5FD2DFD1A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Paradisea
status

Treatment

Paradisea View in CoL [sic] Guilielmi Cabanis, 1888

Cabanis, J. (1888): Vorläufige Notiz über 2 neue ParadiesVögel. Journal für Ornithologie 36(1): 119 [119; illustration in Journal für Ornithologie 1889: pl. I].

Now Paradisaea guilielmi Cabanis, 1888 View in CoL . See Mayr 1962b: 201, Cracraft 1992: 37, Frith and Beehler 1998. 483, Dickinson 2003: 518.

SYNTYPES: ZMB 29783. Adult male. Loc.: Finschhafen [Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, 6°31' S, 147°50' E]. Date: [not given]. Coll.: Carl Hunstein. [Exmount; data on ZMB label] GoogleMaps . ZMB 29784. Adult female. Loc.: Finschhafen. Date: [not given]. Coll.: Carl Hunstein. [ Exmount ; data on ZMB label] .

COMMENTS: The bird was named in honour of Wilhelm I (1797–1888), latinized as Guilielmus, the German emperor from 1871 to 1888 and the formal ruler of 'German New Guinea'. See Paradisea Augustae Victoriae for additional information on Hunstein. These two birds comprise the type series .