Biology:Lesser lophorina

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Short description: Species of bird

Lesser lophorina
Lophorina minor - Monograph of the Paradiseidae (cropped).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Lophorina
Species:
L. minor
Binomial name
Lophorina minor
Ramsay, EP, 1885
Synonyms
  • Lophorina superba sphinx Neumann, 1932
  • Lophorina superba lehunti Rothschild, 1932

The lesser lophorina (Lophorina minor), also known as lesser superb bird-of-paradise or rasping bird-of-paradise, is a species of passerine bird in the bird-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae.

It is endemic to the Bird's Tail Peninsula (Papua New Guinea). It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the superb bird-of-paradise, and elevated to species rank in 2017.[2] [3]

Male Lophorina minor.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2020). "Lophorina minor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T181524214A181564545. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T181524214A181564545.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/181524214/181564545. Retrieved 1 February 2020. 
  2. Irestedt, Martin; Batalha-Filho, Henrique; Ericson, 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 (2): 439–470. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx004. 
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2022). "Crows, mudnesters, melampittas, Ifrit, birds-of-paradise". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/crows/. Retrieved 1 February 2022. 

Wikidata ☰ Q55616775 entry