IRMNG - Melanitta Boie, 1822

IRMNG taxon details

Melanitta Boie, 1822

IRMNG_ID

1294086 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1294086)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Anatidae Vigors, 1825

Synonymised names

Melanetta Gray, 1840 · unaccepted

Melanilta Bonaparte, 1828 · unaccepted

Melanonetta Sundevall, 1873 · unaccepted

Direct children (5)

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Species Melanitta americana (Swainson, 1832)
Species Melanitta deglandi (Bonaparte, 1850)
Species Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Melanitta nigra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Melanitta perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Isis (Oken), 1828
page(s): 564 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Melanitta Boie, 1822. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1294086 on 2024-11-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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original description Isis (Oken), 1828
page(s): 564 [details]

basis of record SN2000/Monroe Jr. & Sibley, 1993 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

current name source CoL2006 [details]

extant flag source SN2000/Monroe Jr. & Sibley, 1993, PaleoDB [details]

habitat flag source web search (AJR) [details]

original description (of Melanonetta Sundevall, 1873) Meth. Av. Tentamen, fasc. 2
page(s): 149 [details]

original description (of Melanetta Gray, 1840) Gray, G.R. (1840). A list of the genera of birds with an indication of the typical species of each genus, compiled from various sources. Richard and John E. Taylor, London . vii+ii+80 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48588
page(s): 75 [details]

original description (of Melanilta Bonaparte, 1828) Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N. York, 2, 387
page(s): 389 [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info Sea ducks (scoters) [details]

Habitat Marine and nonmarine [details]

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