The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- nyroca
- Russian name нырок Nyrok for a duck (Aythya).
- Nyroca
(Anatidae; syn. Aythya †Ferruginous Duck A. nyroca) Specific name Anas nyroca Güldenstädt, 1770. "NYROCA. Bill broad and depressed. Anas ferina, Marila nyroca, fuligula." (Fleming 1822); "Nyroca, Fleming *, Phil. of Zool. ii. p. 260 (1822) [Type.] F[uligula]. leucophthalma. ... * Fleming puts Anas ferina first on the list; but A. nyroca should be considered his type, if that bird is separated from Fuligula." (P. Sclater & Salvin 1876); "Nyroca Fleming, Philos. Zoöl., 2, 1822, p. 260. Type, by tautonymy, Anas nyroca Güldenstädt." (Peters, 1931, I, 173).
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