The black-backed swamphen (Porphyrio indicus) is a species of swamphen occurring from southeast Asia to Sulawesi and Borneo. It used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen, which it resembles, but has a large shield, black upperparts, and the side of the head is blackish.
Black-backed swamphen | |
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At Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Gruiformes |
Family: | Rallidae |
Genus: | Porphyrio |
Species: | P. indicus
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Binomial name | |
Porphyrio indicus Horsfield, 1821
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Synonyms | |
Porphyrio porphyrio indicus |
It tends to migrate away from urbanization and other human activity.[1] It lives in wetlands, preferring those with slow-flowing water.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Olaniyi, Oluwatobi Emmanuel; Martins, Chukwudiemeka Onwuka; Zakaria, Mohamed (2021). "Population Estimates and Site Occupancy of Purple Swamphen and White-Breasted Waterhen in the Natural and Artificial Urban Wetlands of Peninsular Malaysia". Punjab University Journal of Zoology. 36 (1). doi:10.17582/journal.pujz/2021.36.1.1.8. ISSN 2313-8556.
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 194.
External links
edit- Media related to Porphyrio indicus at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Porphyrio indicus at Wikispecies