Species profile
Phonygammus aruensis
Phonygammus aruensis
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677414, adult male, collected on Sungai (= Sg. as on label), Wanoembai, 06.02 S, 134.18 E (Frith and Beehler, 1998: 571), Kobror Island, Aru Islands, Papua Province (= West Irian), Indonesia, on 2 September 1900, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 2499). From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Phonygammus aruensis
- Family
- Paradisaeidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Phonygammus
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