Masked Finfoot
Heliopais personatus(Gray, GR, 1849)
English (US) Masked Finfoot
The Masked Finfoot (Heliopais personatus) 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 Heliornithidae (Finfoots) in the order Gruiformes.
Range: Bangladesh and northeastern India to Indochina; winters to SumatraRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Heliopais personatus
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Masked Finfoot
- Described by
- (Gray, GR, 1849)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Podica personata
- Described by
- (Gray, GR, 1849)
- Type locality
- Malacca.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.16, no.186 p.90 pl.4
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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