Chatham Island merganser

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The Chatham Island merganser (Mergus milleneri) is an extinct species of merganser duck from New Zealand.[2] The binomial name refers to Dr. Philip Millener, to recognise his work in collecting material on the species.

Chatham Island merganser
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Holocene
Type specimen from the collections of Te Papa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Mergus
Species:
M. milleneri
Binomial name
Mergus milleneri
Williams & Tennyson, 2014

Description

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The Chatham merganser is known only from subfossils, so not much is known about the bird. It was the smallest of all Mergus species. Fossil records indicate it was widespread on Chatham Island but not on the smaller nearby islands.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Mergus milleneri. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  2. ^ Tennyson, A.J.D. (2015). "Chatham Island merganser". nzbirdsonline.org.nz. New Zealand Birds Online. Retrieved 2017-01-12.