Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) - Poliocephalus Selby, 1840

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WoRMS taxon details

Poliocephalus Selby, 1840

AphiaID

366618 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:366618)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Podicipedidae Bonaparte, 1831

Direct children (2)

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Species Poliocephalus poliocephalus (Jardine & Selby, 1827)
Species Poliocephalus rufopectus Gray, 1843

Environment

marine, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Poliocephalus Selby, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=366618 on 2025-04-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-08-25 12:08:38Z

created

Decock, Wim

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

basis of record Harrison, P. (1985). Seabirds: an identification guide. Revised edition. Christopher Helm Publisher. A & C Black: London, UK. ISBN 0-7136-3510-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Poliocephalus)
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