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Plotus melanogaster
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Translingual
Etymology
From mul la - mul Plotus floater: a former name of the genus Anhinga + la melanogaster black-bellied.
Proper noun
Plotus melanogaster la 1 m
mul archaic species family Anhingidae the Oriental darter, now known as Anhinga melanogaster
1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhyncops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala species), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone species, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.
mul Taxonomic names (obsolete)