Subspecies Ptiloris (Craspedophora) magnificus alberti Elliot, 1871

Museums

CAVS: 8484

Ptiloris alberti Elliot, D.G. 1871. Review of the genus Ptiloris, Swainson. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870: 580-584 [583] [not a junior homonym of Ptiloris alberti Gray, 1840, which is unavailable because apparently never used as valid: ICdZN Art. 11.5,6, cf. its entry as a synonym of Craspedophora magnifica (Vieillot, 1819) by G.R. Gray, Handlist Genera Species Birds British Museum i (1869: 105)].
Secondary source:
Frith, C.B. & Beehler, B.M. 1998. The Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae. Oxford : Oxford University Press xxx 613 pp. [317] (type specimen not located).
Craspedophora magnifica yorki Mathews, G.M. 1922. Additions and corrections. Austral Avian Records 5: 1-9 [8] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Ptiloris alberti Elliot, 1871].
Secondary source:
Frith, C.B. & Beehler, B.M. 1998. The Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae. Oxford : Oxford University Press xxx 613 pp. [319] (proposed for new name shown not to be preoccupied).
Craspedophora magnifica claudia Mathews, G.M. 1917. New subspecies and notes on species. Austral Avian Records 3(4): 69-78 [Date published 21 Jul 1917] [72].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 677613 ♂, Qld: Claudie River.

Queensland

Lowland and foothill forest of Cape York Peninsula, QLD; Papua New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, tropical rainforest.

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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