Species Anas (Dafila) eatoni (Sharpe, 1875)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Querquedula eatoni Sharpe, R.B. 1875. Description of an apparently new species of Teal from Kerguelen's Island. Ibis 1875: 328.

  Type data:

   Paratype(s) BMNH BM(NH) 1876.4.26.11 Skin, Royal Sound, Kerguelen Island
  Comment: Other unlisted syntypes in the Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History)), Tring, England.

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp. [86].

Generic Combinations

• Anas (Dafila) eatoni (Sharpe, 1875).

Introduction

Listed for Australian fauna, following Christidis and Boles (2008: 66), based on a single record from Mawson Station, Australian Antarctic Territory.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Single record from Mawson, Antarctica in December 2001, specimen in the Western Australian Museum

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [66]

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