Chlamydera Lauterbachi Bird

English Name:  Yellow-breasted Bowerbird
Latin Name:  Chlamydera lauterbachi
Protonym:  Chlamydodera lauterbachi Orn.Monatsb. 5 p.24
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Ptilonorhynchidae / Chlamydera
Taxonomy Code:  yebbow1
Type Locality:  Jagei River, upper Ramu, German New Guinea.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1897
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHLAMYDERA
(Ptilonorhynchidae; † Spotted Bowerbird C. maculata) Gr. χλαμυς khlamus, χλαμυδος khlamudos  short cloak; δερα dera  neck (see Calodera); "CALODERA MACULATA, Gould.  Spotted Calodera.   ...   the two species, which are all that are at present known, will stand as Calodera nuchalis, (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis, Jard. & Selb.) and Calodera maculata   ...   REMARK.  Since I characterized this species in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, I have been informed that the term Calodera has already been applied to a genus in Entomology: if therefore it should be deemed objectionable in the present case, I would beg to substitute that of Chlamydera." (Gould 1837) (OD per Laurent Raty); "Chlamydera Gould, 1837, Birds Austr. Adj. Islands, Pt. i, pl. 3, (note).  New name for Calodera Gould, 1837, preoccupied by Calodera Mannerheim, 1830 (Coleoptera)." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Chlamidera, Chlamydodera.
Synon. Alphachlamydera, Calodera, Pseudochlamydera, Rogersornis.

lauterbachi
Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach (1864-1937) German botanist, explorer, collector (subsp. Arses telescopthalmus, Chlamydera).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-breasted Bowerbird (lauterbachi)
Latin Name: Chlamydera lauterbachi lauterbachi
lauterbachi
Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach (1864-1937) German botanist, explorer, collector (subsp. Arses telescopthalmus, Chlamydera).

Yellow-breasted Bowerbird (uniformis)
Latin Name: Chlamydera lauterbachi uniformis
uniformis
L. uniformis  simple, plain, uniform  < uni-  only-  < unus  one; formis  shaped, formed  < forma  likeness, type.
● ex “Uniform Sandpiper” of Latham 1785, and Pennant 1785 (unident.).