Kingdom Animalia Order Passeriformes Higher classification Bird-of-paradise | Phylum Chordata Family Paradisaeidae Rank Hybrid | |
Species Paradigalla carunculata
x Parotia sefilata Scientific name Paradigalla carunculata x Parotia sefilata Similar Rothschild's lobe‑billed bird of pa, Astrapian sicklebill, Duivenbode's riflebird, Barnes' astrapia, Bensbach's bird of paradise | ||
Sharpe's lobe-billed parotia, also known as Sharpe's lobe-billed riflebird, is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid between a long-tailed paradigalla and western parotia.
History
Only one subadult male specimen is known of this hybrid, held in the British Natural History Museum, presumably deriving from the Vogelkop Peninsula of north-western New Guinea. It is named after its describer, British ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
References
Sharpe's lobe-billed parotia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA