Species profile
Black-breasted Munia
Lonchura teerinki
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305642, adult male, collected on the Ibele (5 Bele) River, 18 km north of Lake Habbema, 2200 m, southern watershed of the Pegunungan Maoke (5 Snow Mountains), Papua Province, Indonesia (5 Netherlands New Guinea), on 23 November 1938, by R. Archbold, A. L. Rand, and W. B. Richardson on the 1938 – 1939 Archbold Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea.
- Scientific name
- Lonchura teerinki
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Lonchura
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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