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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spatula is a genus or subgenus of ducks in the family Anatidae that includes the shovelers, garganey, and several species of American teals.
Spatula | |
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Male northern shoveler | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Tribe: | Anatini |
Genus: | Spatula Boie, F, 1822 |
Type species | |
Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Anas. A molecular phylogenetic study comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2009 found that the genus Anas, as then defined, was non-monophyletic.[2] Based on this published phylogeny, the genus Anas was split into four monophyletic genera with 10 species moved into the resurrected genus Spatula.[3]
The genus Spatula had originally been proposed by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1822. The type species is the northern shoveler.[4][5] The name Spatula is the Latin word for "spoon", from which the English word "spatula" also originates.[6]
The genus contains 10 species:[3]
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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![]() | S. querquedula | Garganey | Europe and western Asia |
![]() | S. hottentota | Blue-billed teal | eastern and southern Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia west to Niger and Nigeria and south to South Africa and Namibia |
![]() | S. puna | Puna teal | the Andes of Peru, western Bolivia, northern Chile and extreme northwestern Argentina |
![]() | S. versicolor | Silver teal | southern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the Falkland Islands |
![]() | S. platalea | Red shoveler | Tierra del Fuego northwards to Chile and most parts of Argentina, as well as the Falkland Islands and small isolated breeding populations in southern Peru |
![]() | S. cyanoptera | Cinnamon teal | South America, western United States and extreme southwestern Canada; a rare visitor to the East Coast of the United States |
![]() | S. discors | Blue-winged teal | North America, where it breeds from southern Alaska to Nova Scotia and south to northern Texas |
![]() | S. smithii | Cape shoveler | South Africa, uncommon further north in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, southern Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia |
![]() | S. rhynchotis | Australasian shoveler | Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand |
S. clypeata | Northern shoveler | northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America | |
Cladogram based on the analysis of Gonzalez and colleagues published in 2009.[2]
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