Lophorina superba, ADDENDA IREDALE, 1948

Irestedt, Martin, Batalha-Filho, Henrique, Ericson Fls, Per G. P., Christidis, Les & Schodde, Richard, 2017, Phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomic consequences in a bird-of-paradise species complex, Lophorina-Ptiloris (Aves: Paradisaeidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181, pp. 439-470 : 465

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scientific name	Lophorina superba
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LOPHORINA SUPERBA ADDENDA IREDALE, 1948 View in CoL

Lophorina superba addenda Iredale, 1948 , Australian Zoologist 11: 162 – type locality: Mt. Hagen District , central highlands of PNG.

Range: eastern cordillera, between the Yuat– Strickland River Divide and head of the Papuan Peninsula, PNG, c. 1200–2200 m a.s.l., evidently intergrading with nominate superba View in CoL westwards through the Lagaip-upper Kikori River drainages .

Remarks: The subspecific name addenda Iredale (1948) was previously synonymized under the subspecies superba ( Mayr, 1962, as feminina ) or latipennis ( Cracraft, 1992; Beehler & Pratt, 2016).

References

Beehler BM, Pratt TK. 2016. Birds of New Guinea distribution, taxonomy, and systematics. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Cracraft J. 1992. The species of the birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae): applying the phylogenetic species concept to a complex pattern of diversification. Cladistics 8: 1-43.

Iredale T. 1948. A check list of the birds of paradise and bower birds. Australian Zoologist 11: 161-189.

Mayr E. 1962. Paradisaeidae. In: Mayr E, Greenway JC Jr, eds. Check-list of birds of the world, Vol. 12. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard, 181-204.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Paradisaeidae
Genus	Lophorina