Cape shoveler/Mestolone del Capo

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Zoology

Cape shoveler/Mestolone del Capo

Anas smithii Hartert, EJO 1891

Nomenclature adopted by the Novara  scientists

Anas capensis Gould

From the Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara [...] Zoologischer Theil, A. Pelzeln, "Vögel": "A male specimen was killed in a salt marsh on Mr Hoet's Simons Bay property. Less common there than Thalassiornis leuconutus. Zelebor" (p. 138).

References

Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde: in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, 1. Band: Wirbelthiere, Wien, Aus der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1869, A. Pelzeln, "Vögel", p. 138.

E. Hartet, Katalog der Vogelsammlung in Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. Abgeschlossen Mitte Januar 1891, Frankfurt a. M, Druck von Gebrüder Kuaner, 1891, p. 231.

Links

https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=4670CF43

Details

State of
preservation 

Good

Collection
date

2-26 October 1857

Collection 
place

Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

Owner

Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste

Inventory Number

3019

Dimension
(cm)

21x26x12 cm

IUCN index

Lower risk

State of
preservation 

Anoniem  

Date of withdrawal

Rio de Janeiro, Brasile

Place of collection

Lithograph

Owner

Nationaal Archief

Inventory Number

VELH30

Dimension

62 x 91 x 91 cm

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