Common Pochard / Aythya ferina
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Common Pochard
SCI Name:
Protonym: Anas ferina Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.126
Taxonomy: Anseriformes / Anatidae / Aythya
Taxonomy Code: compoc
Type Locality: Europe; restricted to Sweden by Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svecica, ed. 2, p. 45.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
AYTHYA
(Anatidae; Ϯ Greater Scaup A. marila) Gr. αιθυια aithuia unidentified seabird mentioned by Aristotle, Hesychius, and other authors. In modern times associated with a variety of seabirds, including a shearwater, a cormorant, a duck, and an auk (cf. Gr. myth. Thyr or Thyrie, mother of Cygnus, who was changed into a waterbird); "130. Aythya marila. — Anas marila Lin." (Boie 1822); "Aythya Boie, 1822, (before May), Tagebuch Reise Norwegen, p. 351. Type, by monotypy, Anas marila Linnaeus." (Johnsgard in Peters, 1979, I, ed. 2, p. 482).
Var. Aethyia, Aethyja, Aithyia, Aithya.
Synon. Aristonetta, Dyseonetta, Fuligula, Fulix, Glaucium, Hydrobates, Ilyonetta, Marila, Nettarion, Nyroca, Penelope, Perissonetta, Zeafulix.
ferina
L. ferinus wild, game < ferus wild; "61. ANAS. ... ferina. 27. A. alis cinereis immaculatis, uropygio nigro. Faun. svec. 107. Anas fera fusca. Gesn. av. 116. Aldr. orn. l. 19. c. 40. Will. orn. 288. t. 72. Raj. av. 143. Alb. av. 2. p. 87. t. 98. Habitat in Europæ maritimis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Aythya).
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)
