Flightless Steamer-Duck
Flightless Steamer-Duck
Here the details of the Flightless Steamer-Duck named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Anas pteneres Descr.Anim.itin.MarisAust.Terr.ed.Licht. p.338
Taxonomy: Anseriformes / Anatidae / Tachyeres
Taxonomy Code: flistd1
Type Locality: Tierra del Fuego.
Author: Forster, JR
Publish Year: 1844
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TACHYERES
(Anatidae; Ϯ Falkland Flightless Steamer Duck T. brachypterus) Gr. ταχυηρης takhuērēs fast rowing < ταχυς takhus fast; ερσσω eressō to row; "the flightless Duck (Tachyeres2 brachypterus, Latham) of Magellan's Strait. ... 2The generic name Micropterus, applied by Lesson in 1831 to the Anas brachyptera of Latham, was bespoken by Lacépède, in 1802, for a genus of Fishes. Microptera was applied by Gravenhorst, in the same year, to a family of pentamerous Coleoptera, and by Robin, in 1830, to a genus of Diptera. Micropteryx was given by Hübner, in 1816, to a genus of Lepidoptera, and by Agassiz, in 1829, to a genus of Fishes. The name above proposed for a subgeneric type of Anatidæ, as well-marked as any of those to which terms indicative of such distinction have been applied, is derived from ταχυηρης, swift rower, and relates to the characteristic movements of Latham's species in water, which has obtained for it, from navigators, the name of "Steamer Duck." (Owen 1875); "Tachyeres Owen, Trans. Zoöl. Soc. London, 9, 1875, p. 254. Type, by monotypy, Anas brachyptera Latham." (Peters 1931, I, 176).
Synon. Microa, Micropterus.
pteneres
Gr. πτην ptēn, πτηνος ptēnos winged < πετομαι petomai to fly; ερεσσω eressō to row.
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)