Species profile
Phonygammus yorki
Phonygammus yorki
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677370, male adult, collected at Black Gin (Black Jin, as on label) Creek, 10.55 S, 142.22 E (USBGN, 1957), Cape York, Queensland, Australia, on 23 December 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 2180). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Phonygammus yorki
- Family
- Paradisaeidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Phonygammus
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