Torrent Duck

Taxonomy

Order

Anseriformes

Family

Anatidae

Genus

Merganetta

eBird Code

torduc1

Subspecies (6)

• Merganetta armata armata

  Andean rivers of Chile southward from Atacama and adjacent Argentina southward from San Juan to Tierra del Fuego

• Merganetta armata berlepschi

  Andean rivers of southern Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, and northern Chile

• Merganetta armata colombiana

  Andean rivers of Colombia and adjacent northwestern Venezuela, to central Ecuador

• Merganetta armata garleppi

  Andean rivers of northern Bolivia

• Merganetta armata leucogenis

  Andean rivers of central Ecuador to central Peru

• Merganetta armata turneri

  Andean rivers of southern Peru (Cusco and Arequipa) and far northern Chile (northern Tarapacá)