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New World Jacanas
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New World Jacanas

Jacana

Jacana is the genus comprising the two jacanas of the Americas: the northern jacana (Jacana spinosa), and the wattled jacana (Jacana jacana).

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Wattled Jacana

speciesJacana jacana

Northern Jacana

speciesJacana spinosa

Wattled × Northern Jacana

hybridJacana jacana × spinosa

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Where it lives

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

New World Jacanas in The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...

The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...

Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.237

New World Jacanas in Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 2) (1777)

Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 2) (1777)

Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.15

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4577.