Rothschild's lobe-billed bird-of-paradise

Rothschild's lobe-billed bird-of-paradise (Loborhamphus nobilis), also known as the noble lobe-bill, is one of six enigmatic species of bird-of-paradise collected in Papua New Guinea for zoologist Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild. It is only known from the holotype.

Rothschild's lobe-billed bird-of-paradise
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Superfamily: Corvoidea
Family: Paradisaeidae
Hybrid: Paradigalla carunculata × Lophorina superba
Synonyms

In 1930 it, along with the five other collected species, was considered by Erwin Stresemann to be a hybrid, presumptively between the long-tailed paradigalla and the superb bird-of-paradise, though doubts have been raised about the parentage.[1]

Notes

  1. Fuller.

References

  • Newton, Michael. "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide." McFarland & Company, January 2005. ISBN 0-7864-2036-7.
  • Fuller. "The Lost Birds of Paradise." Voyageur Press, January 1997. ISBN 1-85310-566-X.


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