Comb-crested Jacana
Irediparra gallinacea(Temminck, CJ, 1828)
English (US) Comb-crested Jacana
The Comb-crested Jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) 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: inland southeastern Borneo, Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas and Mindanao (southern Philippines) eastward to New Guinea and some satellites, and northern and eastern AustraliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Irediparra gallinacea
- Family
- Jacanidae (Jacanas)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Comb-crested Jacana
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1828)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Parra gallinacea
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1828)
- Type locality
- Menado, Celebes.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.78, vol.5 pl.464
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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