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The ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) is a member of the shelduck genus Tadorna; in the wildfowl family Anatidae. The bird was first described in 1764 by the German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas who named it Anas ferruginea, but later it was transferred to the genus Tadorna with the other shelducks.
The genus Tadorna was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1822. [4] [5] The type species is the common shelduck. [5] The genus name comes from the French name Tadorne for the common shelduck. [6] It may originally derive from Celtic roots meaning "pied waterfowl", essentially the same as the English "shelduck". [7]
Ruddy-headed goose: Chloephaga rubidiceps Sclater, PL, 1861: 54 Radjah shelduck: Radjah radjah (Garnot & Lesson, RP, 1828) 55 Common shelduck: Tadorna tadorna (Linnaeus, 1758) 56 Ruddy shelduck: Tadorna ferruginea (Pallas, 1764) 57 South African shelduck: Tadorna cana (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 58 Australian shelduck: Tadorna tadornoides (Jardine ...
Anseriformes is an order of birds belonging to the clade Galloanseres.It consists of 3 families, 58 genera and 171 living species. [1] [2] Extinct species assignment follows the Mikko's Phylogeny Archive [3] and Paleofile.com websites. [4]
Subfamily: Plectropterinae (one genus in Africa, formerly included in the "perching ducks", but closer to the Tadorninae) Plectropterus , spur-winged goose Subfamily: Tadorninae – shelducks and sheldgeese Male common shelduck (This group of larger, often semiterrestrial waterfowl can be seen as intermediate between Anserinae and Anatinae.
Tadorna is a genus of birds, containing the shelducks. ... Ruddy shelduck; S. South African shelduck This page was last edited on 14 March 2013, at 03:36 (UTC). ...
Genus Alopochen - Egyptian goose and Mascarene shelducks; Genus Amazonetta - Brazilian teal; Genus Anas - pintails, ... Genus Laterallus - ruddy crake; Genus Lewinia
Ruddy shelduck, Tadorna ferruginea; Common shelduck, ... and the great albatrosses from the genus Diomedea have the largest wingspans of any extant birds.