Jobi Manucode

SCI Name:  Manucodia jobiensis
Protonym:  Manucodia jobiensis Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 7(1875) p.969
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Manucodia
Taxonomy Code:  jobman1
Type Locality:  Wonapi, Jobi Island.
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1876
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MANUCODIA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Crinkle-collared Manucode M. chalybatus) Contracted form of “Manucodiata,” the name assigned to a group of birds-of-paradise by Brisson 1760, based on Old Javanese Manu ko dewata  birds of the gods; "634. Le Chalybé de la nouvelle Guinée, BUFF. V. p. 236. BRISS. Ornith. o. LINN. Gen. 52. o. Manucodia chalybea, mihi. Blue green Paradise bird LATH. I. p. 482. 7." (Boddaert 1783); "Manucodia Boddaert, 1783, Tabl. enlum., p. 39, no. 634. Type, by monotypy, M. chalybea Boddaert = P. chalybata Pennant. [Masculine, from old Javanese; "manukdewa" — bird of the gods]." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 184).   
Synon. Chalybaeus, Eucorax, Manucorax.
● (syn. Parotia Ϯ Western Parotia P. sefilata) "20  Manucodia Sexpennis, Linn  o.  ([Cloche] 7.    20 Sixfilet, ou Oiseau de Paradis, Buff. . . . .([Cloche] 7." (Meuschen 1787).

jobiensis
Jobi I. (= Japen), Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.
● Erroneous TL. Jobi I. (= mainland of New Guinea, east of Geelvink Bay) (Ailuroedus).