Garganey
Garganey
Here the details of the Garganey named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Anas Querquedula Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.126
Taxonomy: Anseriformes / Anatidae / Spatula
Taxonomy Code: gargan
Type Locality: Europe; restricted to Sweden by Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svecica, ed. 2, p. 45.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SPATULA
(Anatidae; Ϯ Northern Shoveler S. clypeata) L. spatula spoon < dim. spatha spatula < Gr. σπαθη spathē spatula; "The Shoveler. Anas clypeata Germanis ... its Bill is three Inches long, coal black, much broader towards the Tip than at the Base, excavated like a Buckler, of a round Circumference" (Albin 1731); "[Anas] clypeata. 16. A[nas]. rostri extremo dilatato rotundato, ungue incurvo" (Linnaeus 1758); "71. Familie. Enten, Anas. ... 152. Gattung. Spatula. 388. clypeata." (Boie 1822); "Spatula Boie, Isis von Oken, 1822, col. 564. Type, by monotypy, Anas clypeata Linné." (Peters 1931, I, 169).
Synon. Adelonetta, Clypeata, Cyanopterus, Pterocyanea, Punanetta, Querquedula, Rhynchaspis, Rhynchoplatus.
querquedula / querquedulus
L. querquedula kind of duck mentioned by Varro and Columella; “Prof. Skeat says the name is from an onomatopoeic base, querq or kark, significative of any loud noise” (BOU 1915); "61. ANAS. ... Querquedula. 28. A. macula alarum viridi, linea alba supra oculos. Fn. svec. 108. Kernell. Gesn. av. 107. Aldr. orn. l. 19. c. 33. Querquedula prima. Will. ornith. 291. t. 74. Raj. av. 148. Habitat in Europæ aquis dulcibus." (Linnaeus 1758) (Spatula).
Querquedula
(syn. Spatula Ϯ Garganey S. querquedula) L. querquedula type of duck, apparently named from its call (cf. specific name Anas querquedula Linnaeus, 1758); "Anas; Querquedula" (Oken 1817); "QUERQUEDULA. TEAL. ... THE Teals are distinguished by their diminutive size compared with the rest of the Anatidæ: their beak is longer in proportion than that of the Wigeons: it is also much narrower than in those birds, and its base is more elevated, approaching in form to that of some of the smaller species of Bernicle. GARGANEY TEAL. (Querquedula circia.) ... Anas circia. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 204. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 533. Raii, Syn. 148. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 873. Querquedula æstiva. Briss. Orn. 6. 445. Sarcelle d'été. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 268. Buff. Pl. Enl. 946." (Stephens 1824); "Querquedula Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., 12, (2), p. 142, 1824—type, by tautonymy, Anas circia Linnaeus = Anas querquedula Linnaeus." (Hellmayr & Conover 1948, XIII, 333).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)