Lycocorax obiensis Bernstein, 1864

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2005, The type specimens of Paradisaeidae, Cnemophilidae and Ptilonorhynchidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde of the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Zootaxa 1072 (1), pp. 1-25 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1072.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5053034
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scientific name	Lycocorax obiensis Bernstein, 1864
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Bernstein, H. A. (1864): Ueber einen neuen Paradiesvogel und einige andere neue Vögel. Journal für Ornithologie 12(6): 410 [401–410].

Now Lycocorax pyrrhopterus obiensis Bernstein, 1864 View in CoL . See Mayr 1962b: 184, Cracraft 1992: 8, Dickinson 2003: 515.

SYNTYPE: ZMB 17649 [Acquisition B. 5524]. Female. Loc.: Obi major [Obi Island, N. Moluccas, 1°30' S, 127°40' E]. Date: 25 July 1862. Coll.: H. A. Bernstein. Ex. coll. Leyden Museum. [Exmount; data on field label] GoogleMaps .

COMMENTS: Dr. Heinrich Agathon Bernstein (1828–1865) was in the Dutch services exploring the northern Moluccas in 1861–1863 ( Gebhardt 1964: 34). This specimen was not mentioned in Meise's MS. Eleven additional syntypes are found at the RMNH, numbered RMNH 90566–90576 About RMNH (René Dekker MS, in litt., May 2005) .