Ribbon-tailed Astrapia / Astrapia mayeri
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Ribbon-tailed Astrapia
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Protonym: Astrapia mayeri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 59 p.57
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Astrapia
Taxonomy Code: ritast1
Type Locality: 'Eighty to a hundred miles west of Mt. Hagen [Station]'' [= Mt. Hagen].
Author: Stonor
Publish Year: 1939
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
ASTRAPIA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Arfak Astrapia A. nigra) Gr. αστραπιος astrapios or αστραπαιος astrapaios of lightning < αστραπη astrapē flash of lightning < στεροπη steropē lightning, glare; "97. ASTRAPIE, Astrapia. Paradisea, Gm. Lath. Bec glabre à la base, comprimé latéralement, étroit en dessus, pointu, entaillé et fléchi vers le bout. — Queue très-longue, très-étagée. Esp. Paradisea nigra, Gm. Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Astrapia Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 36. Type, by monotypy, Paradisea nigra Gmelin." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 191). Cracraft 1992, concluded that this genus comprised seven species.
Var. Astropia, Atrophia, Atropia.
Synon. Astrarchia, Calastrapia, Taeniaparadisea.
mayeri
● Frederick William Shaw Mayer (1899-1989) Australian ornithologist, aviculturalist, collector (Astrapia, syn. Xanthotis flaviventer).
● Gustave Mayer (fl. 1832) collector on Mauritius (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Nesoenas).
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)
