Species profile
Blue Bird-of-paradise
Paradisaea rudolphi
Quick answer
Syntype: MHNG 614.019, adult male, collected in Papua New Guinea (Maguli Range, Owen Stanley mountain Range, alt. 7000 ft = 2134 m) by K. Hunstein in 1884. From the Gustav Schneider collection, acquired by the MHNG in 1885.
- Scientific name
- Paradisaea rudolphi
- Family
- Paradisaeidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Paradisaea
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