White-winged Scoter
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White-winged Scoter
Here the details of the White-winged Scoter named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Oedemia deglandi Rev.Crit.Orn.Europ. p.108
Taxonomy: Anseriformes / Anatidae / Melanitta
Taxonomy Code: whwsco2
Type Locality: North America.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELANITTA
(Anatidae; Ϯ Velvet Scoter M. fusca) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; νηττα nētta duck; "Familie. Enten, Anas. ... 155. Gattung. Melanitta. 395. nigra. 396. fusca. 397. perspicillata." (Boie 1822); "Melanitta Boie, Isis von Oken, 1822, col. 564. Type, by subsequent designation, Anas fusca Linné. (Eyton, Monogr. Anat., 1838, p. 52.)" (Peters 1931, I, 181).
Var. Melanetta.
Synon. Ania, Maceranas, Macroramphus, Melanonetta, Oidemia, Pelionetta, Phaeonetta.
deglandi
Dr Côme Damien Degland (1787-1856) French ornithologist, Director of Mus. d’Histoire Naturelle, Lille (Melanitta, syn. Stercorarius pomarinus).
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)
