Bronze-winged Jacana
Metopidius indicus(Latham, J, 1790)
English (US) Bronze-winged Jacana
The Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus) 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: lowlands of India to southwestern China, southeastern Asia, Sumatra, and JavaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Metopidius indicus
- Family
- Jacanidae (Jacanas)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bronze-winged Jacana
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1790)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Parra indica
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1790)
- Type locality
- India.
- Original description
- Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiæ; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. 2 p.765
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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