Puna Teal / Spatula puna
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Puna Teal
SCI Name:
Protonym: Anas Puna Arch.Naturgesch. 10 p.315
Taxonomy: Anseriformes / Anatidae / Spatula
Taxonomy Code: puntea1
Type Locality: Peru.
Author: von Tschudi
Publish Year: 1844
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.
puna
Puna (Spanish, from Quechua), the high bleak Andean plateau above about 10000ft (3000m).
● Highlands of western Peru; ex “Colaptes puna” of Lichtenstein 1854 (subsp. Colaptes rupicola).
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)
