Anas pachyscelus Wetmore, 1960
Bermuda (Islands) flightless duck
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Anas pachysceles Wetmore, 1960
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Bermuda
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wetmore, Alexander. (1960). Pleistocene birds in Bermuda. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 140(2): 1-11.
Other references:
Olson, S. L., Wingate, D. B., Hearty, P. J. and Grady, F. V. (2005). Prodromus of Vertebrate Paleontology and Geochronology of Bermuda. In: Alcover, J. A. and Bover, P. (eds.). Proceedings of the International Symposium “Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach”. Monografies de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears, 12: 219-232.
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]