Indian Spot-billed Duck

SCI Name:  Anas poecilorhyncha
Protonym:  Anas poecilorhyncha IndischeZool. p.23 pl.13 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Anseriformes / Anatidae / Anas
Taxonomy Code:  isbduc1
Type Locality:  Ceylon.
Author:  Forster, JR
Publish Year:  1781
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ANAS
(Anatidae; Ϯ Mallard A. platyrhynchos) L. anas, anatis  duck.  The Mallard is the wild ancestor of the farmyard duck and its many domesticated forms; "61. ANAS.  Rostrum lamelloso-dentatum, convexum, obtusum.  Lingua ciliata, obtusa." (Linnaeus 1758); "Anas Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 122. Type, by subsequent designation (Lesson, 1828, Man. Ornith., 2, p. 417), Anas boschas Linnaeus = Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus." (Johnsgard in Peters, 1979, I, ed. 2, p. 460).  Linnaeus's Anas comprised thirty-nine species (A. Cygnus, A. Cygnoid, A. Tadorna, A. spectabilis, A. fusca, A. nigra, A. Anser, A. erythropus, A. canadensis, A. cærulescens, A. Bernicla, A. mollissima, A. moschata, A. bahamensis, A. Albeola, A. clypeata, A. platyrhynchos, A. strepera, A. bucephala, A. Clangula, A. rustica, A. perspicillata, A. Glaucion, A. Penelope, A. acuta, A. hyemalis, A. ferina, A. Querquedula, A. Crecca, A. histrionica, A. minuta, A. Circia, A. autumnalis, A. Boschas, A. adunca, A. galericulata, A. Sponsa, A. arborea, A. Fuligula).    
Var. Annas, Anos, Anus, Asnas.   
Synon. Aethiopinetta, Afranas, Aldabranas, Archeoquerquedula, Boschas, Crecca, Dafila, Dafilonettion, Dafilula, Elasmonetta, Horizonetta, Melananas, Micronetta, Nesonetta, Nettion, Notonetta, Pachyanas, Paecilonitta, Phasianurus, Philippinetta, Polionetta, Trachelonetta, Virago, Xenonetta.

poecilorhyncha / poecilorhynchus
Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  pied, spotted; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

SUBSPECIES

Indian Spot-billed Duck (poecilorhyncha)
SCI Name: Anas poecilorhyncha poecilorhyncha
poecilorhyncha / poecilorhynchus
Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  pied, spotted; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

Indian Spot-billed Duck (haringtoni)
SCI Name: Anas poecilorhyncha haringtoni
haringtoni
Lt.-Col. Herbert Hastings Harington (1868-1916) Indian Army in Burma and Mesopotamia 1890-1916, killed at the Battle of Dujaila (subsp. Acrocephalus concinens, subsp. Anas poecilorhyncha, subsp. Anthus trivialis, syn. Erythrogenys erythrogenys ferrugilata, subsp. Garrulus bispecularis, syn. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Saxicola ferreus).