Plotus melanogaster = Anhinga melanogaster (Oriental darter) Anhinga Levaillant, màle.
Plotus melanogaster
Date 1838
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35518331
Author Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon; Nicholas Huet.; Guillaume Michel Jerôme Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse; J. G. Prêtre; C. J. Temminck
Full title Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux : pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 /
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The Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and, like the cormorant, Anhinga melanogaster hunts for fish while its body is submerged in water. It spears a fish underwater, bringing it above the surface, tossing and juggling it before swallowing the fish head first. The body remains submerged as it swims, and the slender neck alone is visible above the water, which accounts for the colloquial name of snakebird. Like the cormorants, the Oriental darters have wettable feathers and they are often found perched on a rock or branch with its wings held open to dry.
Order: Suliformes
Family: Anhingidae
Genus: Anhinga
Species: Anhinga melanogaster (Pennant, 1769)
Synonyms
- Plotus melanogaster
