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African Jacana
Actophilornis africanus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)
Also calledAfrika Jakanası (tur) · Afrikansk jaçana (swe) · Afrička jakana (srp) · Blaustirn-Blatthühnchen (deu) · Blaustirnblatthühnchen (deu) · Grootlangtoon (afr) · Jacana africana (spa) · Jacana à poitrine dorée (fra) · Jakana Afrika (bre) · Lelieloper (nld) · Seacána Afracach (gle) · afrika jakano (epo) · afrikabladhøne (nor) · afrikai levéljáró (hun)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
Distribution
Breeding regions are AF. Breeding subregions are widespread inland Sub-Saharan Africa.
IOC World Bird List, v
discussion
LITERATURE. — Green & Sayer (1979); Holyoak & Seddon (1989); Thonnérieux et al. (1989); Aimassi & Levi (1993); Dowsett (1993); Weesie (1996); Balanca & de Visscher (1997); Mauvais (1998); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Portier (2002 b, c); Portier et al. (2002); Balanca et al. (2007); Sinclair & Ryan (2010); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013).
An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso
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MUSEUM MATERIAL. — ISFC 019, 020; MCCI 3353 to 3355, 3451; MCSI SF 31; MGPT-MPOC 314; SMF 13427.
An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Actophilornis africanus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2481853.