Bermuda flightless duck
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Bermuda flightless duck Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Genus: | Anas |
Species: | †A. pachyscelus
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Binomial name | |
†Anas pachyscelus |
The Bermuda flightless duck (Anas pachyscelus) is an extinct species of flightless duck which was endemic to the island of Bermuda in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was described in 1960 by Alexander Wetmore, from Late Pleistocene subfossil remains collected in 1956 by Bermudan ornithologist David Wingate, at the Wilkinson Quarry in Hamilton Parish.[1] The holotype is a left tarsometatarsus (Specimen No. V22506) held in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.[2]
References
- ^ a b Wetmore, Alexander (1960). "Pleistocene birds in Bermuda". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 140 (2): 1–11.
- ^ "Anas pachyscelus Wetmore". Collections Search Centre. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
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