Stephanie’s Astrapia
Stephanie's Astrapia
Here the details of the Stephanie's Astrapia named bird below:
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Protonym: Astrarchia stephaniae Zeitsch.ges.Orn. 2 p.378
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Astrapia
Taxonomy Code: prsast1
Type Locality: Hufeisengebirge, southeastern New Guinea.
Author: Finsch & Meyer
Publish Year: 1885
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ASTRAPIA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Arfak Astrapia A. nigra) Gr. αστραπιος astrapios or αστραπαιος astrapaios of lightning < αστραπη astrapē flash of lightning < στεροπη steropē lightning, glare; "97. ASTRAPIE, Astrapia. Paradisea, Gm. Lath. Bec glabre à la base, comprimé latéralement, étroit en dessus, pointu, entaillé et fléchi vers le bout. — Queue très-longue, très-étagée. Esp. Paradisea nigra, Gm. Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Astrapia Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 36. Type, by monotypy, Paradisea nigra Gmelin." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 191). Cracraft 1992, concluded that this genus comprised seven species.
Var. Astropia, Atrophia, Atropia.
Synon. Astrarchia, Calastrapia, Taeniaparadisea.
stephaniae
Stephanie Clothilde Louise Hermione Marie Charlotte Princess of Belgium and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duchess of Saxony, Archduchess and Crown Princess of Austria-Hungary (1864-1945) daughter of Leopold II King of the Belgians and wife of Archduke Rudolf Crown-Prince of Austria-Hungary (Astrapia).
SUBSPECIES
Stephanie's Astrapia (feminina)
SCI Name: Astrapia stephaniae feminina
feminina / femininus
L. femininus feminine < femina female. Applied to birds described from female specimens only or with hen-feathered males.
Stephanie's Astrapia (stephaniae)
SCI Name: Astrapia stephaniae stephaniae
stephaniae
Stephanie Clothilde Louise Hermione Marie Charlotte Princess of Belgium and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duchess of Saxony, Archduchess and Crown Princess of Austria-Hungary (1864-1945) daughter of Leopold II King of the Belgians and wife of Archduke Rudolf Crown-Prince of Austria-Hungary (Astrapia).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)