Vogelkop Lophorina

SCI Name:  Lophorina niedda
Protonym:  Lophorina superba niedda Orn.Monatsb. 38 p. 179
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Lophorina
Taxonomy Code:  vosbop1
Type Locality:  Wondiwoi, Wandammen Mountains.
Author:  Mayr
Publish Year:  1930
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LOPHORINA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Superb Bird-of-Paradise L. superba) Gr. λοφος lophos  crest, tuft; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos  nose; "87. LOPHORINE, Lophorina.  Paradisea, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec garni jusqu'au-delà du milieu de plumes alongées, très-comprimé latéralement, étroit en dessus, grêle, droit, échancré et fléchi à la pointe. — Plumes du cou longues et disposées en forme d'aile.   Esp. Le Superbe, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Lophorina Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 35. Type, by monotypy, "Le Superbe, Buff." = Paradisea superba Pennant." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 193). In applying the phylogenetic species concept, Cracraft 1992, recognised no fewer than six species in this genus; it has recently been suggested that the Superb Bird-of-Paradise in fact comprises three separate species.
Var. Lophorhina, Loporina.
Synon. Craspedophora, Mathewsiella, Pherocraspedon, Ptiloris.

niedda
New Guinea Aboriginal onomatopoeic name Niedda for a bird of paradise (subsp. Lophorina superba).

SUBSPECIES

Vogelkop Lophorina (inopinata)
SCI Name: Lophorina niedda inopinata
inopinata / inopinatum / inopinatus
L. inopinatus unexpected, unlooked for  < in-  not; opinatus  supposed  < opinari  to suppose.
• "Alauda japonica inopinata  ...  Ab Al arvensi typica et Al. arvensi blakistoni ala rotundata rostroque longiore, ab Al. gulgula ejusque subspeciebus coloratione corporis superioris intense rufa, non cinerascenti, ab Al. japonica typica colore laeto rufescenti, haud sordide pallide-cinammomeo signisque medianis nigricantibus angustioribus, ab Al. japonica coelivoci praeterea longitudine ulnae minore differt.  Subspecies finium orientalium Tibeti indigena."(Bianchi 1904) (subsp. Alauda gulgula).
• "According to Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, C. c. africana (his capensis) inhabits "South Africa, south of about 15o  S. lat., Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoro Islands, Cape Verd Islands, Canaries, Madeira, and Azores."  This would be a most astounding distribution and requires much investigation and alteration.  It would mean that the same form inhabited South Africa and the Cape Verd Isles, with no such Quail in an area of 25 degrees of latitude between the two areas, i.e. the Cunene River and the Cape Verd Islands.  But, worse luck, the Quail, inhabiting the Cape Verd Islands is not at all of the group of africana!  ...  I name the Cape Verd Quail:  Coturnix coturnix inopinata subsp. nov." (Hartert 1917) (subsp. Coturnix coturnix).
• "Melithreptus albogularis inopinatus   (White-throated Honeyeater).   Dorsum dull citrine, size large  ... Range: coastal east Australia, north to east foot of Cape York Peninsula, south to Macleay River, N. S. W., and inland to Great Dividing Range.  ...  Nominotypical albogularis, which ranges across northern Australia east to Cape York Peninsula, is brighter citrine dorsally and small" (Schodde 1989) (subsp. Melithreptus albogularis).
• "CHALCURUS INOPINATUS, n. sp.  ...  Of this remarkable new species the Bornean hunters of Mr. John Waterstradt obtained three males and two females in the State of Ulu Pahang, in the centre of the Malay Peninsula.  ...  This is perhaps the most interesting discovery recently made in the Malay Peninsula, only rivalled by that of the Rheinardtius, which occurs in the same country." (Rothschild 1903) (Polyplectron).
• "SERICORNIS MACULATUS.   SPOTTED SCRUB-WREN   ...   That many more subspecies would be named was certain from the published accounts such as Milligan's from the Wongan Hills, West Australia and Alexander from the Perth district.  Further, in the British Museum is a form of this species from Lithgow, New South Wales, suggesting that it occurs inland through that State.  These birds are darker above with less rufous tinge than South Australian birds and thr flanks are noticeably darker.  These may be called:  Sericornis maculatus inopinatus subsp. nov." (Mathews 1922) (syn. Sericornis frontalis).

Vogelkop Lophorina (niedda)
SCI Name: Lophorina niedda niedda
niedda
New Guinea Aboriginal onomatopoeic name Niedda for a bird of paradise (subsp. Lophorina superba).