Indian Spot-billed Duck
Indian Spot-billed Duck
Here the details of the Indian Spot-billed Duck named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Anas poecilorhyncha IndischeZool. p.23 pl.13 fig.1
Taxonomy: Anseriformes / Anatidae / Anas
Taxonomy Code: isbduc1
Type Locality: Ceylon.
Author: Forster, JR
Publish Year: 1781
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ANAS
(Anatidae; Ϯ Mallard A. platyrhynchos) L. anas, anatis duck. The Mallard is the wild ancestor of the farmyard duck and its many domesticated forms; "61. ANAS. Rostrum lamelloso-dentatum, convexum, obtusum. Lingua ciliata, obtusa." (Linnaeus 1758); "Anas Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 122. Type, by subsequent designation (Lesson, 1828, Man. Ornith., 2, p. 417), Anas boschas Linnaeus = Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus." (Johnsgard in Peters, 1979, I, ed. 2, p. 460). Linnaeus's Anas comprised thirty-nine species (A. Cygnus, A. Cygnoid, A. Tadorna, A. spectabilis, A. fusca, A. nigra, A. Anser, A. erythropus, A. canadensis, A. cærulescens, A. Bernicla, A. mollissima, A. moschata, A. bahamensis, A. Albeola, A. clypeata, A. platyrhynchos, A. strepera, A. bucephala, A. Clangula, A. rustica, A. perspicillata, A. Glaucion, A. Penelope, A. acuta, A. hyemalis, A. ferina, A. Querquedula, A. Crecca, A. histrionica, A. minuta, A. Circia, A. autumnalis, A. Boschas, A. adunca, A. galericulata, A. Sponsa, A. arborea, A. Fuligula).
Var. Annas, Anos, Anus, Asnas.
Synon. Aethiopinetta, Afranas, Aldabranas, Archeoquerquedula, Boschas, Crecca, Dafila, Dafilonettion, Dafilula, Elasmonetta, Horizonetta, Melananas, Micronetta, Nesonetta, Nettion, Notonetta, Pachyanas, Paecilonitta, Phasianurus, Philippinetta, Polionetta, Trachelonetta, Virago, Xenonetta.
poecilorhyncha / poecilorhynchus
Gr. ποικιλος poikilos pied, spotted; ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill.
SUBSPECIES
Indian Spot-billed Duck (poecilorhyncha)
SCI Name: Anas poecilorhyncha poecilorhyncha
poecilorhyncha / poecilorhynchus
Gr. ποικιλος poikilos pied, spotted; ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill.
Indian Spot-billed Duck (haringtoni)
SCI Name: Anas poecilorhyncha haringtoni
haringtoni
Lt.-Col. Herbert Hastings Harington (1868-1916) Indian Army in Burma and Mesopotamia 1890-1916, killed at the Battle of Dujaila (subsp. Acrocephalus concinens, subsp. Anas poecilorhyncha, subsp. Anthus trivialis, syn. Erythrogenys erythrogenys ferrugilata, subsp. Garrulus bispecularis, syn. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Saxicola ferreus).
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)