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Lophorina superba superba  (Pennant in J. R. Forster, 1781)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 922257

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subspecies  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAves  – Birds, oiseaux  
                         OrderPasseriformes  – Perching Birds, passereaux  
                            FamilyParadisaeidae Vigors, 1825 – birds-of-paradise  
                               GenusLophorina Vieillot, 1816  
                                  SpeciesLophorina superba (Pennant in J. R. Forster, 1781) – Vogelkop Lophorina, Ave del paraíso soberbia mayor, ave-do-paraíso-soberba-grande, loforina-de-vogelkop, Paradisier superbe  
                                     SubspeciesLophorina superba superba (Pennant in J. R. Forster, 1781)  
       

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  Source: IOC World Bird List (version 15.1), website (version 15.1)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Gill, F., D. Donsker, and P. Rasmussen, eds. 2025. IOC World Bird List (v 15.1. Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org [Accessed 03 Mar 2025]. doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.1   
  Reference for: Lophorina superba superba   
       
  Source: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2010.02.25, website (version 25-Feb-10)  
  Acquired: 2012   
  Notes: "Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource" maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net   
  Reference for: Lophorina superba superba   
       
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 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Australia  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: The complex publication history of Indische Zoologie (Indian Zoology) complicates the correct authorship of Paradisea superba. The version in which superba appears is the second edition (1781), a Latin and German translation of Pennant's work by J.R. Forster. Forster added three plates supplied by Pennant to complete the publication (Zimmer 1926: 374-375). In the Peters Checklist (Mayr & Greenway 1962: 198), authorship is given as Pennant, 1781, with a note that the name is 'in Forster.' Richmond, however, attributed it directly to Forster (see https://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/SP/Pand/pand00110a.jpg). In the preface to Indische Zoologie, Forster (1781: ii) writes: 'In Descriptionibus corrigendis augendisque, ut et in conquirendis Synonymis, diligentia summa sum usus, Pennantii propositum, quaedam de Paradiseis et de Phoenice antiquorum edendi' - indicating that he expanded and corrected Pennant's descriptions from the first edition (1769, in English and French, the latter poorly translated; Zimmer 1926) and published Pennant's additional work on the Phoenix and Birds of Paradise. Accordingly, the most accurate attribution for Paradisea superba is Pennant in Forster, 1781  
 

 

    

 
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