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HELIORNITHIDAE
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Finfoots
1
(3:3)
PODICA
Lesson,
1831
F
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Heliornis senegalensis
Vieillot, 1817; type by monotypy
Podica senegalensis
African Finfoot
senegalensis
(Vieillot, 1817)
2
v
Senegal to Nigeria, S Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo Basin, Uganda and NW Tanzania; Ethiopia
somereni
Chapin, 1954
i
C and SE Kenya, NE Tanzania [Chapin, 1954 #689]
petersii
Hartlaub, 1852
i
Angola to Mozambique, south to E South Africa
HELIOPAIS
Sharpe,
1893
M
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Podica personata
G.R. Gray, 1849; type by original designation
Heliopais personatus
(G.R. Gray, 1849)
Masked Finfoot
v
NE India, Bangladesh, W continental SE Asia >> mainland SE Asia, Sumatra, W Java
HELIORNIS
Bonnaterre,
1791
M
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Heliornis fulicarius
Bonnaterre, 1791; type by monotypy =
Colymbus fulica
Boddaert, 1783
Heliornis fulica
(Boddaert, 1783)
Sungrebe
i
E Mexico (S Tamaulipas) to W Ecuador, S Bolivia, NE Argentina (Misiones) and SE Brazil
1 Sequence of genera follows Fain
et al.
(2007) [Fain, 2007 #9840].
2 Includes
camerunensis
; see Louette (1981) [Louette, 1981 #13691]. Also includes
albipectus
; see White (1965) [White, 1965 #4191].
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