Description

COMMENTS: In the original description, Cracraft gave the AMNH number of the holotype and included in his type series five specimens collected by Diamond at Awande and one from the Kratke Range. The five paratypes are: AMNH 809308 (Diamond no. 1958), female, Camp 1, Mount Karimui, 4200 ft, 11 August 1965; AMNH 809309 (182), female, Awande, 6300 ft., near Okapa, 17 June 1965; AMNH 309311 (388), male, Okasa, 2600 ft, near Okapa, 23 June 1965; AMNH 309312 (1976), male, Camp 1, Mount Karimui, 4200 ft, 12 August 1965; AMNH 784702, male, Kassam Pass, Kratke Range, 1350 ft, 31 October 1959, by Hobart M. Van Deusen (VD 59 - 9). Described as a phylogenetic species by Cracraft, P. diamondi was included as a subspecies of Manucodia keraudrenii by Frith and Beehler (1998: 232 – 233) and Frith and Frith (2009: 464) and as a subspecies of Phonygammus keraudrenii by Dickinson (2003: 526).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Paradisaeidae

Genus: Phonygammus

Species: Phonygammus diamondi Cracraft