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Plotus melanogaster = Anhinga melanogaster (Oriental darter)
| Subject: | Plotus melanogaster = Anhinga melanogaster (Oriental darter)
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Plotus melanogaster
Date between 1825 and 1834
Artist Paul Louis Oudart (1796–1860); Charles Etienne Pierre Motte (1784–1836)
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Vieillot, La galerie des oiseaux, pl. 278
Old Latin name Plotus melanogaster
New Latin name Anhinga melanogaster
Common name Nederlands: Indische slangenhalsvogel
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plotus_melanogaster_-_1825-1834_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18000029.tif
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 |
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