Manucode

Manucode
Curl-crested manucode, (Manucodia comrii)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Manucodia
Boddaert, 1783
Type species
Manucodia chalybea
Boddaert, 1783

Manucodes are birds-of-paradise in the genus Manucodia. The genus was introduced by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert in 1783 for the crinkle-collared manucode (Manucodia chalybatus), which is now the type species. The genus name is a contracted form of Manucodiata, used in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson for a group of birds-of-paradise. This word is a Latin derivation of the Malay terms manuk ("bird") and dewata ("of the gods" or "godly").

The members of this genus are medium-sized perching birds with black-glossed purple and green plumage, which inhabit the lowland forests of New Guinea and nearby islands. They are monogamous and sexually monomorphic, in contrast to other birds-of-paradise.

The genus contains four species.

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Glossy-mantled manucodeManucodia aterlowlands of New Guinea and nearby islands
Jobi manucodeManucodia jobiensislowland forests of Jobi Island and northern New Guinea
Crinkle-collared manucodeManucodia chalybatusNew Guinea and Misool Island of West Papua.
Curl-crested manucodeManucodia comriiPapua New Guinea.

References

  1. ↑ "Paradisaeidae". Howard & Moore Checklist Online. Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 39, Number 634.
  3. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 184.
  4. ↑ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1, p. 30, Vol. 2, p. 130.
  5. 1 2 Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. ↑ Firth, Clifford B.; Firth, Dawn W. (2009), "Family Paradisaeidae (Birds-of-paradise)", in del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Christie, David (eds.), Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 404–459, ISBN 978-84-96553-50-7
  7. ↑ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 6 January 2026.