Yellow-breasted Satinbird
Yellow-breasted Satinbird
Here the details of the Yellow-breasted Satinbird named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Loboparadisea sericea Bull.Br.Orn.Club 6 p.16
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cnemophilidae / Loboparadisea
Taxonomy Code: yebsat1
Type Locality: Dutch New Guinea''. The type was bought at Kurudu Island and had presumably come from the Weyland Mts.
Author: Rothschild
Publish Year: 1896
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
LOBOPARADISEA
(Cnemophilidae; Ϯ Yellow-breasted Satinbird L. sericea) Gr. λοβος lobos lobe; genus Paradisaea Linnaeus, 1758, bird-of-paradise; "LOBOPARADISEA, gen. n. The type of this new genus differs from all others in having two wattles, which entirely cover the basal half of the beak, except a narrow ridge on the culmen. Size small; bill very broad at base, and short; feathers of underparts and rump recomposed and with a strong satiny gloss. No lengthened ornamental plumes.Tip of tail rounded. LOBOPARADISEA SERICEA, sp. n. ... rump bright yellow, with a beautiful silky sheen. ... Underside bright yellow and most beautifully silky. ... Bill with two large wattles reaching halfway down from the base, dull blue with yellow tips." (Rothschild 1896); "Loboparadisea Rothschild, 1896, Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl., 6, p. 15. Type, by monotypy, L. sericea Rothchild [sic]." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 182). Cracraft 1992, recognised two strongly differentiated species in this genus.
sericea
Med. L. sericeus silken < Gr. σηρικος sērikos silken < σηρικον sērikon silk < σηρες Sēres the people from whom silk was obtained, the Chinese.
● ex “Soui-manga à plumes soyeuses” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (?artefact).
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-breasted Satinbird (sericea)
SCI Name: Loboparadisea sericea sericea
sericea
Med. L. sericeus silken < Gr. σηρικος sērikos silken < σηρικον sērikon silk < σηρες Sēres the people from whom silk was obtained, the Chinese.
● ex “Soui-manga à plumes soyeuses” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (?artefact).
Yellow-breasted Satinbird (aurora)
SCI Name: Loboparadisea sericea aurora
aurora
Roman myth. Aurora, rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn, sister to Helios and Selene < aurora dawn, east.
● ex “Petit Tyran de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 571, fig. 1 (syn. Myiarchus tyrannulus).
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)