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Mergellus mochanovi Zelenkov & Kurochkin, 2014

Dyuktai (River) smew (proposed)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene or early Holocene

 

Distribution

Dyuktai River, Russia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Zelenkov, N. V. and Kurochkin, E. N. (2014). Two new waterfowl species (Aves: Anseriformes) from the Upper Pleistocene of Yakutia: The first extinct species of Quaternary birds from Russia. Paleontological Journal 48(6): 645-654. [Abstract]

 

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