Species profile
Splendid Astrapia
Astrapia splendidissima
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 678036, [adult male], reportedly from the foot of the Pegunungan Tiyo (= Charles Louis Mountains), 04.00 S, 135.30 E (USBGN, 1982), Papua Province, Indonesia (formerly Dutch New Guinea), purchased from the plume dealer van Renesse van Duivenbode. From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Astrapia splendidissima
- Family
- Paradisaeidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Astrapia
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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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)