Species profile—Porphyrio melanotus (purple swamphen)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Rallidae (crakes, rails and swamphens) → Porphyrio melanotus (purple swamphen)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Rallidae (crakes, rails and swamphens)
- Scientific name
- Porphyrio melanotus Temminck, 1820
- Common name
- purple swamphen
- Type reference
- Temminck, C.J. (1820). Manuel d'ornithologie; ou, Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe, precede d'une analyse du systeme general d'ornithologie, et suivi d'une table alphabetique des especes. Paris: Gabriel Dufour Vol. 2.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1662
- Synonym(s)
- Porphyrio porphyrio
Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus
Porphyrio poliocephalus melanotus - Alternate name(s)
- bald-coot
Australasian swamphen
pukeko
eastern swamphen - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Agricultural Pest
- Species environment
- Aquatic & Terrestrial
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Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1662.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
