Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Albanian | Rosa kokëbardhë |
Arabic | بط ابيض الراس |
Armenian | Սպիտակագլուխ բադ |
Asturian | Balbasña tiestablanca |
Azerbaijani | Göydimdik ördək |
Basque | Ahate buruzuria |
Bulgarian | Тръноопашата потапница |
Catalan | malvasia capblanca |
Chinese (SIM) | 白头硬尾鸭 |
Croatian | čakora |
Czech | kachnice bělohlavá |
Danish | Hvidhovedet Skarveand |
Dutch | Witkopeend |
English | White-headed Duck |
English (United States) | White-headed Duck |
Finnish | valkopääsorsa |
French | Érismature à tête blanche |
French (France) | Érismature à tête blanche |
Galician | Malvasía de cabeza branca |
German | Weißkopf-Ruderente |
Greek | (Ευρωπαϊκό) Κεφαλούδι |
Hebrew | צחראש לבן |
Hungarian | Kékcsőrű réce |
Icelandic | Eirönd |
Italian | Gobbo rugginoso |
Japanese | カオジロオタテガモ |
Latvian | Baltgalvas zilknābis |
Lithuanian | Baltagalvė stačiauodegė antis |
Mongolian | Ямаан сүүлт нугас |
Norwegian | hvithodeand |
Persian | اردک سرسفید |
Polish | sterniczka |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Pato-rabo-alçado |
Romanian | Rață cu cap alb |
Russian | Савка |
Serbian | Beloglava plavokljuna patka |
Slovak | potápnica bielohlavá |
Slovenian | Beloglavka |
Spanish | Malvasía Cabeciblanca |
Spanish (Spain) | Malvasía cabeciblanca |
Swedish | kopparand |
Turkish | Dikkuyruk |
Ukrainian | Савка білоголова |
Oxyura leucocephala (Scopoli, 1769)
PROTONYM:
Anas leucocephala
Scopoli, 1769. AnnusIHist.-Nat., p.65.
TYPE LOCALITY:
No type locality given, but probably from northern Italy.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- OXYURA
- oxyura
- leucocephala / leucocephalos / leucocephalus
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)
White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala Scientific name definitions
Carles Carboneras and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated December 7, 2016
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated December 7, 2016
Revision History
Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala
Authors
Carles Carboneras and Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
Carboneras, C. and G. M. Kirwan (2020). White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala), 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.whhduc1.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
-
Last Published Version
- December 7, 2016
- White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala
Authors
Carles Carboneras and Guy M. Kirwan
Revisors
Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
Carboneras, C. and G. M. Kirwan (2016). White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala). 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.