Emperor Bird-of-Paradise
Emperor Bird-of-Paradise
Here the details of the Emperor Bird-of-Paradise named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Paradisea Guilielmi J.Orn. 36 p.119
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Paradisaea
Taxonomy Code: ebopar1
Type Locality: Kaiser Wilhelm''s Land, restricted to the Sattelberg.
Author: Cabanis
Publish Year: 1888
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
PARADISAEA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Greater Bird-of-Paradise P. apoda) Late L. paradisus paradise < Gr. παραδεισος paradeisos paradise, pleasure ground (of the Persian kings) < Old Persian pairi-daēza walled garden; Magellan’s sailors were told by Moluccan natives that the exotic birds-of-paradise came from heaven, being called ‘birds of god’ (see apoda); "51. PARADISÆA. Rostrum basi plumis tomentosis tectum. Pennæ hypochondriorum longiores." (Linnaeus 1758); "Paradisaea Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 110. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, p. 39), P. apoda Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 199). Linnaeus's Paradisaea comprised two species (P. apoda, P. regia) (Cracraft 1992, recognised fourteen phylogenetic species herein).
Var. Paradisea, Paradisia.
Synon. Manucodiata, Samalia, Trichoparadisea, Uranornis.
paradisaea / paradisaeus
Med. L. paradiseus of paradise, paradisean, ethereal < Late L. paradisus paradise.
guilielmi
Wilhelm II Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (1859-1941; reigned 1888-1918 (abdicated)) (Paradisaea).
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)