Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Afrikaans | Swartswaan |
Asturian | Cisne prietu |
Basque | Beltxarga beltza |
Bulgarian | Черен лебед |
Catalan | Cigne negre |
Chinese | 黑天鵝 |
Chinese (SIM) | 黑天鹅 |
Croatian | crni labud |
Czech | labuť černá |
Danish | Sortsvane |
Dutch | Zwarte Zwaan |
English | Black Swan |
English (United States) | Black Swan |
Faroese | Svartsvanur |
Finnish | mustajoutsen |
French | Cygne noir |
French (French Guiana) | Cygne noir |
Galician | Cisne negro |
German | Schwarzschwan |
Greek | Μαυρόκυκνος |
Hebrew | ברבור שחור |
Hungarian | Fekete hattyú |
Icelandic | Svartsvanur |
Indonesian | Soang hitam |
Italian | Cigno nero |
Japanese | コクチョウ |
Latvian | Melnais gulbis |
Lithuanian | Juodoji gulbė |
Norwegian | svartsvane |
Polish | łabędź czarny |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Cisne-preto |
Romanian | Lebădă neagră |
Russian | Чёрный лебедь |
Serbian | Crni labud |
Slovak | labuť čierna |
Slovenian | Črni labod |
Spanish | Cisne Negro |
Spanish (Spain) | Cisne negro |
Spanish (Uruguay) | Cisne Negro |
Swedish | svart svan |
Thai | หงส์ดำ |
Turkish | Kara Kuğu |
Ukrainian | Лебідь чорний |
Cygnus atratus (Latham, 1790)
PROTONYM:
Anas atrata
Latham, 1790. IndexOrn. 2, p.834.
TYPE LOCALITY:
lakes of Australia.
Definitions
- CYGNUS
- cygnus
- atrata / atratus
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
SPECIES
Black Swan Cygnus atratus Scientific name definitions
Carles Carboneras and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated September 1, 2013
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated September 1, 2013
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Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
Authors
Carles Carboneras and Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
Carboneras, C. and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Black Swan (Cygnus atratus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.blkswa.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- September 1, 2013
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
Authors
Carles Carboneras and Guy M. Kirwan
Revisors
Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
Carboneras, C. and G. M. Kirwan (2013). Black Swan (Cygnus atratus). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.