Goldie’s Bird-of-Paradise / Paradisaea decora
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Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise
SCI Name:
Protonym: Paradisea decora Ibis p.131
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Paradisaea
Taxonomy Code: gbopar1
Type Locality: Fergusson Island.
Author: Salvin & Godman
Publish Year: 1883
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
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.
decora
L. decorus beautiful < decor, decoris grace, beauty < decet it is seemly.
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)
