Birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae)
Curl-crested Manucode (Manucodia comrii) - HBW 14, p. 463
French: Paradisier d'Entrecasteaux
German: Kräuselparadieskrähe
Spanish: Ave-del-paraíso de Comrie
Other common names: Curl-breasted Manucode
Taxonomy: Manucodia comrii P. L. Sclater, 1876, Huon Gulf; error = Fergusson Island, D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago, New Guinea.
May form a superspecies with M. chalybatus. Sympatric with M. keraudrenii on islands of Goodenough, Fergusson and Normanby, but hybridization unrecorded. Races poorly differentiated; species perhaps better treated as monotypic. Two subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- trobriandi Mayr, 1936 - Trobriand Group (Kiriwina and Kaileuna), off SE New Guinea.
- comrii P. L. Sclater, 1876 - D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (Goodenough, Wagifa, Fergusson, Dobu and Normanby), off SE New Guinea.
- Least Concern
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