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Australasian swamphen
(Porphyrio melanotus)[]
Species ID: 2-25-175-3597-95810
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Porphyrio
Conservation status: DD - Data Deficient
Systems: Freshwater / Marine / Terrestrial
Links: IUCN Red List

Wikipedia

Other names[]

  • Pukeko

Diet[]

  • Shoots
  • Leaves
  • Roots
  • Flowers
  • Seeds
  • Rice
  • Grasses
  • Bananas
  • Molluscs
  • Small crustaceans
  • Insects
  • Earthworms
  • Spiders
  • Fish
  • Frogs
  • Water snakes
  • Birds
  • Eggs
  • Small rodents
  • Carrion

Biomes[]

Locations[]

Porphyrio melanotus

Ecoregion range

Ecozones[]

Ecoregions[]

  • AA0102 Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests
  • AA0104 Buru rain forests
  • AA0105 Central Range montane rain forests
  • AA0107 Huon Peninsula montane rain forests
  • AA0109 Lord Howe Island subtropical forests
  • AA0113 New Caledonia rain forests
  • AA0114 Norfolk Island subtropical forests
  • AA0115 Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
  • AA0117 Queensland tropical rain forests
  • AA0118 Seram rain forests
  • AA0119 Solomon Islands rain forests
  • AA0120 Southeastern Papuan rain forests
  • AA0121 Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
  • AA0122 Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
  • AA0126 Vanuatu rain forests
  • AA0127 Vogelkop montane rain forests
  • AA0128 Vogelkop-Aru lowland rain forests
  • AA0201 Lesser Sundas deciduous forests
  • AA0202 New Caledonia dry forests
  • AA0203 Sumba deciduous forests
  • AA0204 Timor and Wetar deciduous forests
  • AA0401 Chatham Island temperate forests
  • AA0402 Eastern Australian temperate forests
  • AA0403 Fiordland temperate forests
  • AA0404 Nelson Coast temperate forests
  • AA0405 North Island temperate forests
  • AA0406 Northland temperate kauri forests
  • AA0407 Rakiura Island temperate forests
  • AA0408 Richmond temperate forests
  • AA0409 Southeast Australia temperate forests
  • AA0410 Southland temperate forests
  • AA0411 Tasmanian Central Highland forests
  • AA0412 Tasmanian temperate forests
  • AA0413 Tasmanian temperate rain forests
  • AA0414 Westland temperate forests
  • AA0701 Arnhem Land tropical savanna
  • AA0702 Brigalow tropical savanna
  • AA0703 Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna
  • AA0704 Carpentaria tropical savanna
  • AA0705 Einasleigh upland savanna
  • AA0706 Kimberly tropical savanna
  • AA0707 Mitchell grass downs
  • AA0708 Trans Fly savanna and grasslands
  • AA0709 Victoria Plains tropical savanna
  • AA0801 Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
  • AA0802 Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
  • AA0803 Southeast Australia temperate savanna
  • AA1001 Australian Alps montane grasslands
  • AA1003 South Island montane grasslands
  • AA1202 Esperance mallee
  • AA1204 Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
  • AA1205 Swan Coastal Plain Scrub and Woodlands
  • AA1207 Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee
  • AA1209 Southwest Australia savanna
  • AA1210 Southwest Australia woodlands
  • AA1304 Great Sandy-Tanami desert
  • AA1305 Great Victoria desert
  • AA1307 Pilbara shrublands
  • AA1401 New Guinea mangroves
  • OC0105 Fiji tropical moist forests
  • OC0107 Kermadec Islands subtropical moist forests
  • OC0110 Palau tropical moist forests
  • OC0112 Samoan tropical moist forests
  • OC0114 Tongan tropical moist forests
  • OC0201 Fiji tropical dry forests