Species profile
Archbold's Bowerbird
Archboldia papuensis
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305644, male, collected on the Ibele (= Bele) River, 2200 m, 18 km north of Danau Habbema (= Lake Habbema), 04.09 S, 138.39 E (Frith and Beehler, 1998: 568), Pegunungan Maoke (= Snow Mountains), Papua Province, Indonesia (= Netherlands New Guinea), on 3 December 1938, by Richard Archbold, A. L. Rand, and W. B. Richardson, on the 1938 – 1939 Archbold Expedition (no. 8490).
- Scientific name
- Archboldia papuensis
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Archboldia
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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