Northern Jacana
Jacana spinosa(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Northern Jacana
The Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa) 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 southern Sinaloa and central Tamaulipas (northwestern and northeastern Mexico); rarely southern Texas (where formerly bred) to western Panama, and including Cozumel (just off Yucatan Peninsula); and Cuba, Jamaica, and HispaniolaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Jacana spinosa
- Family
- Jacanidae (Jacanas)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Northern Jacana
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Fulica spinosa
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- South America ex Edwards, Nat. Hist. Bds., p. 48, pi. 48. ' I was told it was brought from Carthagena. ...' Error = Panama, substituted as type locality by Todd, antea, p. 219.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.152
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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