Ribbon-tailed Astrapia / Astrapia mayeri

Ribbon-tailed Astrapia / Astrapia mayeri

Ribbon-tailed Astrapia

SCI Name:  Astrapia mayeri
Protonym:  Astrapia mayeri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 59 p.57
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ritast1
Type Locality:  'Eighty to a hundred miles west of Mt. Hagen [Station]'' [= Mt. Hagen].
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Publish Year:  1939
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DEFINITIONS

ASTRAPIA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Arfak Astrapia A. nigra) Gr. αστραπιος astrapios or αστραπαιος astrapaios  of lightning  < αστραπη astrapē  flash of lightning  < στεροπη steropē  lightning, glare; "97. ASTRAPIE, Astrapia.  Paradisea, Gm. Lath.  Bec glabre à la base, comprimé latéralement, étroit en dessus, pointu, entaillé et fléchi vers le bout. — Queue très-longue, très-étagée.    Esp. Paradisea nigra, Gm. Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Astrapia Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 36. Type, by monotypy, Paradisea nigra Gmelin." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 191). Cracraft 1992, concluded that this genus comprised seven species.
Var. Astropia, Atrophia, Atropia.
Synon. AstrarchiaCalastrapia, Taeniaparadisea.

mayeri
● Frederick William Shaw Mayer (1899-1989) Australian ornithologist, aviculturalist, collector (Astrapia, syn. Xanthotis flaviventer).
●  Gustave Mayer (fl. 1832) collector on Mauritius (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Nesoenas).