White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala Scientific name definitions
- EN Endangered
- Names (42)
- Monotypic
Alfredo Salvador, Juan A. Amat, and Andy J. Green
Version: 3.0 — Published September 30, 2022
Revision Notes
Version: 3.0 — Published September 30, 2022
Revision Notes
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Albanian | Rosa kokëbardhë |
| Arabic | بط ابيض الراس |
| Armenian | Սպիտակագլուխ բադ |
| Asturian | Balbasía 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 (French Guiana) | 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 |
| 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 |
Revision Notes
Alfredo Salvador, Juan A. Amat, and Andy J. Green evaluated every section of the account, and added new or revised material throughout.
Oxyura leucocephala (Scopoli, 1769)
PROTONYM:
Anas leucocephala
Scopoli, 1769. AnnusIHist.-Nat., p.65.
TYPE LOCALITY:
No type locality given, but probably from northern Italy.
Definitions
- OXYURA
- oxyura
- leucocephala / leucocephalos / leucocephalus
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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)
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