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Ruddy duck/Gobbo della Giamaica

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Ruddy duck/Gobbo della Giamaica

Oxyura jamaicensis (Gmelin, JF 1789)

Nomenclature adopted by the Novara  scientists

Erismatura ferruginea Eyton

From the Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara [...] Zoologischer Theil, A. Pelzeln, "Vögel": "Among the numerous individuals reported there is a male with a white triangular spot on the throat, then a specimen with a downy coat" (p.139).

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. 139.

T. C. Eyton, A Monograph on the Anatidae, Or Duck Tribe, London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, [...] and Eddowes, Shrewsbury, 1838, p. 171.

J. F. Gmelin (ed. by), Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, etc., Lipsiae [Leipzig], impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer, 1788-1793, ed. 13, 3 vols., vol. I, pt. 2, pp. 519-520.

Links

https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=675EEA7F

Details

State of
preservation 

Good

Collection
date

April - May 1859

Collection 
place

Valparaiso, Chile

Owner

Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste

Inventory Number

A1954

Dimension
(cm)

27x26,5x26 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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