Species profile
Epimachus astrapioides
Epimachus astrapioides
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679119, [adult male], purchased from van Renesse van Duivenbode, collected somewhere in Papua Province, Indonesia (formerly Dutch New Guinea). From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Epimachus astrapioides
- Family
- Paradisaeidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Epimachus
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Related species in Paradisaeidae
- Arfak Astrapia (Astrapia nigra)
- Black Sicklebill (Epimachus fastosus)
- Black-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi)
- Blue Bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi)
- Bronze Parotia (Parotia berlepschi)
- Brown Sicklebill (Epimachus meyeri)
- Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae)
- Craspedophora magnifica (Craspedophora magnifica)