Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Pallas, PS 1764)

Reference:
   Adumbr., in Bered. Cat. Vog. Dier. [Vroeg]

Protonym:
  Colymbus ruficollis

Type locality:
  Holland.

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  D8232DB82FDA9811

Avibase ID:
  avibase-D8232DB8

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/D8232DB8

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 563259

Geographic range:

• Tachybaptus ruficollis: Europe (except north) to central, southern, and eastern Asia and Philippines; Africa and Malagasy region; Java, Sulawesi region, Lesser Sundas, Moluccas, northern New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, and Solomon Islands
• Tachybaptus ruficollis ruficollis: Europe eastward to the Ural Mountains, wintering southward to Egypt; also breeds northwestern Africa from Western Sahara eastward to Tunisia; populations in Libya and the Nile Delta not assigned to subspecies
• Tachybaptus ruficollis capensis: Africa, primarily south of the Sahara but breeding north to Egypt in the east; also the Comoros and Madagascar
• Tachybaptus ruficollis albescens: Caucasus eastward to eastern Kazakhstan, southward to India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar
• Tachybaptus ruficollis iraquensis: Iraq and southwestern Iran
• Tachybaptus ruficollis poggei: southeastern to northeastern Asia, Hainan, Taiwan, Japan, and southern Kuril Islands
• Tachybaptus ruficollis philippensis: northern Philippines
• Tachybaptus ruficollis cotabato: Mindanao (southern Philippines)
• Tachybaptus ruficollis tricolor: Sulawesi to New Guinea and Lesser Sundas
• Tachybaptus ruficollis vulcanorum: Java to Tanimbar
• Tachybaptus ruficollis collaris: northeastern New Guinea to Bougainville (northern Solomon Islands)
• Tachybaptus novaehollandiae: Java, Sangihe, and Talaud islands (north of Sulawesi), Timor (eastern Lesser Sundas), New Guinea, southeastern Bismarck Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Rennell (southern Solomon Islands)
• Tachybaptus novaehollandiae novaehollandiae: Timor and southern New Guinea to Australia including Tasmania, and New Zealand
• Tachybaptus novaehollandiae leucosternos: Vanuatu and New Caledonia
• Tachybaptus novaehollandiae rennellianus: Rennell (southern Solomon Islands)
• Tachybaptus novaehollandiae javanicus: Java
• Tachybaptus novaehollandiae fumosus: Sangihe and Talaud islands (off northeastern Sulawesi)
• Tachybaptus novaehollandiae incola: northern New Guinea
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