family Paradisaeidae


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Noun1.family Paradisaeidae - birds of paradise
Paradisaeidae
bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
Oscines, Passeres, suborder Oscines, suborder Passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds
bird of paradise - any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area
genus Ptloris, Ptloris - a genus of Paradisaeidae
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Similar scenarios involving dispersal of New Guinea freshwater Heteroptera (water striders) via island arc fragments were discussed by Polhemus & Polhemus (1998), and may also explain the presence of the bird-of-paradise Semioptera wallacii on Halmahera, despite the family Paradisaeidae otherwise being considered endemic to the island of New Guinea and Australia (Irestedt et al., 2009).
Hemiscyllium halmahera, a new species of bamboo shark (Hemiscylliidae) from Indonesia

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