White Swamphen
Porphyrio albus(Shaw, G, 1790)
English (US) White Swamphen
The White Swamphen (Porphyrio albus) 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 Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, and Coots) in the order Gruiformes.
Range: formerly Lord Howe Island (east of Australia); extinct, last recorded 1790sRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Porphyrio albus
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct
- English (US)
- White Swamphen
- Described by
- (Shaw, G, 1790)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Fulica alba
- Described by
- (Shaw, G, 1790)
- Type locality
- Lord Howe Island.
- Original description
- Journal of a Voyage to new South Wales with Sixty-five plates of Non-descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions appendix p.238, and pl.
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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