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Spatula (bird)

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Spatula
Male northern shoveler
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Tribe: Anatini
Genus: Spatula
Boie, F, 1822
Type species
Anas clypeata
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Anas (Pterocyanea) Bonaparte 1841[1]
  • Querquedula Stephens 1824
  • Querquedula Oken 1817 nomen nudum
  • Rhynchaspis Stephens 1824
  • Rhynchoplatus Berthold 1827
  • Cyanopterus Bonaparte1838 non Haliday 1835
  • Clypeata Lesson 1828
  • Anas (Micronetta) Roberts 1922
  • Adelonetta Heine & Reichenow 1890
  • Punanetta Bonaparte 1856
  • Fugaluna Trennins 1858

Spatula is a genus or subgenus of ducks in the family Anatidae that includes the shovelers, garganey, and several species of American teals.

Taxonomy

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The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Anas. A molecular phylogenetic study comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2009 found that the genus Anas, as then defined, was non-monophyletic.[2] Based on this published phylogeny, the genus Anas was split into four monophyletic genera with 10 species moved into the resurrected genus Spatula.[3]

The genus Spatula had originally been proposed by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1822. The type species is the northern shoveler.[4][5] The name Spatula is the Latin word for "spoon", from which the English word "spatula" also originates.[6]

Extant species

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The genus contains 10 species:[3]

Genus Spatula – Boie, F, 1822 – ten species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Garganey


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Female

Spatula querquedula
(Linnaeus, 1758) 		Europe and western Asia
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Diet: 		 LC 


Blue-billed teal

Spatula hottentota
(Eyton, 1838) 		eastern and southern Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia west to Niger and Nigeria and south to South Africa and Namibia Size:

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Diet: 		 LC 


Puna teal

Spatula puna
(Tschudi, 1844) 		the Andes of Peru, western Bolivia, northern Chile and extreme northwestern Argentina
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Diet: 		 LC 


Silver teal

Spatula versicolor
(Vieillot, 1816)

Two subspecies
  • S. v. versicolor (Vieillot, 1816)
  • S. v. fretensis (King, 1831))
southern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the Falkland Islands
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Diet: 		 LC 


Red shoveler


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Female

Spatula platalea
(Vieillot, 1816) 		Tierra del Fuego northwards to Chile and most parts of Argentina, as well as the Falkland Islands and small isolated breeding populations in southern Peru
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Diet: 		 LC 


Cinnamon teal


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Female

Spatula cyanoptera
(Vieillot, 1816)

Four subspecies
  • Spatula cyanoptera septentrionalium (Oberholser, 1906)
  • Spatula cyanoptera tropica (Snyder & Lumsden, 1951)
  • Spatula cyanoptera borreroi (Snyder & Lumsden, 1951)
  • Spatula cyanoptera orinoma (Snyder & Lumsden, 1951)
  • Spatula cyanoptera cyanoptera (Vieillot, 1816)
South America, western United States and extreme southwestern Canada; a rare visitor to the East Coast of the United States
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Diet: 		 LC 


Blue-winged teal


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Female

Spatula discors
(Linnaeus, 1766) 		North America, where it breeds from southern Alaska to Nova Scotia and south to northern Texas
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Diet: 		 LC 


Cape shoveler


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Female

Spatula smithii
Hartert, 1891 		South Africa, uncommon further north in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, southern Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia Size:

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Diet: 		 LC 



Australasian shoveler


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Female

Spatula rhynchotis
(Latham, 1801)

Two subspecies
  • S. r. rhynchotis(Latham, 1801)
  • S. r. variegata(Gould, 1856)
Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand Size:

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Diet: 		 LC 


Northern shoveler


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Female

Spatula clypeata
(Linnaeus, 1758) 		northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America
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Diet: 		 LC 


Phylogeny

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Cladogram based on the analysis of Gonzalez and colleagues published in 2009.[2]

Spatula

References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spatula.
  1. ^ "Part 7- Vertebrates". Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Gonzalez, J.; Düttmann, H.; Wink, M. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships based on two mitochondrial genes and hybridization patterns in Anatidae". Journal of Zoology. 279 (3): 310–318. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00622.x.
  3. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Screamers, ducks, geese & swans". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  4. ^ Boie, Friedrich (1822). "Generalübersicht". Isis von Oken (in German). 1822. Col 564.
  5. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 460.
  6. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 361. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.


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