Madagascar Jacana
Actophilornis albinucha(Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I, 1832)
English (US) Madagascar Jacana
The Madagascar Jacana (Actophilornis albinucha) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Jacanidae (Jacanas) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: lakes, ponds, and marshes of western and northern MadagascarRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Actophilornis albinucha
- Family
- Jacanidae (Jacanas)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Madagascar Jacana
- Described by
- (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Parra albinucha
- Described by
- (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I, 1832)
- Type locality
- Madagascar.
- Original description
- Magasin de Zoologie 2 cl.2 pl.6,text
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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