Species profile—Porphyrio melanotus (purple swamphen)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Rallidae (Rails, Crakes, Swamphens and Coots) → Porphyrio melanotus (purple swamphen)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Rallidae (Rails, Crakes, Swamphens and Coots)
- 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
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://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.
