Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor Scientific name definitions
- NT Near Threatened
- Names (44)
- Monotypic
Josep del Hoyo, Peter F. D. Boesman, Ernest Garcia, and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated February 21, 2015
Text last updated February 21, 2015
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Kleinflamink |
| Arabic | النحام الصغير |
| Asturian | Flamencu pequeñu |
| Azerbaijani | Kiçik flaminqo |
| Basque | Flamenko txikia |
| Bulgarian | Малко фламинго |
| Catalan | flamenc menut |
| Croatian | mali plamenac |
| Czech | plameňák malý |
| Danish | Lille Flamingo |
| Dutch | Kleine Flamingo |
| English | Lesser Flamingo |
| English (United States) | Lesser Flamingo |
| Finnish | pikkuflamingo |
| French | Flamant nain |
| French (France) | Flamant nain |
| Galician | Flamengo pequeno |
| German | Zwergflamingo |
| Greek | Αφρικανικό Φοινικόπτερο |
| Hebrew | פלמינגו זוטר |
| Hungarian | Kis flamingó |
| Icelandic | Vatnaflæmingi |
| Italian | Fenicottero minore |
| Japanese | コフラミンゴ |
| Kannada | ಸಣ್ಣ ರಾಜಹಂಸ |
| Lithuanian | Mažasis flamingas |
| Malayalam | ചെറിയ രാജഹംസം |
| Marathi | छोटा रोहित |
| Norwegian | dvergflamingo |
| Persian | فلامینگوی کوچک |
| Polish | flaming mały |
| Portuguese (Angola) | Flamingo-pequeno |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Flamingo-pequeno |
| Romanian | Flaming mic |
| Russian | Малый фламинго |
| Serbian | Mali plamenac |
| Slovak | plameniak menší |
| Slovenian | Mali plamenec |
| Spanish | Flamenco Enano |
| Spanish (Spain) | Flamenco enano |
| Swedish | mindre flamingo |
| Turkish | Küçük Flamingo |
| Ukrainian | Фламінго малий |
| Zulu | ukholwasomncane |
Phoeniconaias minor (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798)
PROTONYM:
Phoenicopterus minor
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798. Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomathique de Paris 1(1791-1799) no.13(March 1798), p.98,pl. fig.1,2,3.
TYPE LOCALITY:
No type locaUty given = Senegal.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- PHOENICONAIAS
- minor
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Lesser Flamingo
