- The shelducks, most
species of
which are
found in the
genus Tadorna (except for the
Radjah shelduck,
which is now
found in its own
monotypic genus Radjah)...
- in the
tenth edition of his
Systema Naturae under the
binomial name
Anas tadorna.
Linnaeus largely based his
description on "The
Sheldrake or Burrough-Duck"...
-
botanist Peter Simon Pallas who
named it
Anas ferruginea, but
later it was
transferred to the
genus Tadorna with the
other shelducks. Some authorities...
- with all the
other geese,
ducks and
swans in the
genus Anas and
coined the
binomial name
Anas cana.
Gmelin based his
description on the "Grey-headed goose"...
- The
genus now
contains 31
living species. The name
Anas is the
Latin for "duck". The
genus Anas was
introduced by the
Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus...
- The
Australian shelduck (
Tadorna tadornoides), also
known as the chestnut-breasted
shelduck or
mountain duck, is a shelduck, a
group of
large goose-like...
- The
paradise shelduck (
Tadorna variegata), also
known as the
paradise duck, or pūtangitangi in Māori, is a
species of shelduck, a
group of goose-like...
- 1939 †"
Anas"
albae Jánossy 1979 †"
Anas"
amotape Campbell 1979 †"
Anas"
eppelsheimensis Lambrecht 1933 †"
Anas"
isarensis Lambrecht 1933 †"
Anas" luederitzensis...
-
variously as
anas cairina,
anas indica or
anas libyca – "duck from Cairo", "Indian duck" (in
reference to the West Indies) or "Libyan duck". But his
anas indica...
- in 1775
under the
binomial name
Anas formosa. A
molecular phylogentic study published in 2009
found that the
genus Anas as then
defined was non-monophyletic...
