The Key to Scientific Names
- Sthenelus
(Anatidae; syn. Cygnus †Black-necked Swan C. melancoryphus) Gr. myth. Sthenelus, ruler of Liguria and father to Cygnus (see Cygnus); "STHENELUS* Stejneger gen. nov. DIAGN.—Predominant color of the adults, white; young with downy or feathered lores, the down on the sides of the bill reaching almost to the nostrils, but not forming distinct loral antiæ; tertiaries and scapulars normal, not crisp; tail longer than the middle toe with claw, cuneate; inner webs of outer four primaries and outer webs of the second, third, fourth, and fifth sinuated; webs of the feet scalloped. ... Sthenelus melancorypha (MOL.). Black-necked Swan. ... *Σενελος [sic], nom. myth., father of CYCNUS, Ov. Met. 2, 367." (Stejneger 1882); "Sthenelus Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 5, p. 185, 1882—type, by monotypy, Anas melancorypha Molina." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 283).