The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Metopiana

(Anatidae; syn. Netta  Rosybill N. peposaca) Specific name Anas metopias Pöppig, 1829 (= syn. Netta peposaca); "H. ANATEÆ.  ...  26. Metopiana, Bp.  76. peposaca, Vieill. (metopias, Poeppig.  albipennis, Licht.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Metopiana Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, 1856, p. 649. Type, by monotypy, Anas peposaca Vieillot." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 173).
Var. Metaponia.


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