Western Parotia
Parotia sefilata(Pennant, T, 1781)
English (US) Western Parotia
The Western Parotia (Parotia sefilata) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Paradisaeidae (Birds-of-paradise) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: western New Guinea (Arfak, Tamrau, and Wondiwoi mountains)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Parotia sefilata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Western Parotia
- Described by
- (Pennant, T, 1781)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Paradisea sefilata
- Described by
- (Pennant, T, 1781)
- Type locality
- New Guinea, restricted to the Arfak Mountains. (Based on Martinet's pl. 633 in Buffon's les Planches enluminées).
- Original description
- Indische Zoologie oder systematischer Beschreibungen seltener und unbekannter Thiere aus Indien (etc.) p.40
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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