Stejneger’s Scoter / Melanitta stejnegeri
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Stejneger's Scoter
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Protonym: Oidemia stejnegeri Man.N.Am.Birds p.112
Taxonomy: Anseriformes / Anatidae / Melanitta
Taxonomy Code: whwsco1
Type Locality: Kamchatka to Japan.
Author: Ridgway
Publish Year: 1887
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.
stejnegeri
Dr Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943) Norwegian zoologist resident in USA 1881-1943, Curator Smithsonian Institution 1884-1943 (‡Akialoa, subsp. Anthus gustavi, subsp. Columba janthina, subsp. Dendrocopos leucotos, syn. Hemignathus kauaiensis, subsp. Hypsipetes amaurotis, Melanitta, syn. Parus major nigriloris, subsp. Saxicola torquatus, syn. Spindalis zena, subsp. Spinus xanthogastrus, subsp. Zosterops japonicus).
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)
