Sibirionetta
Appearance
Sibirionetta Temporal range: Early Pleistocene - Recent
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Baikal teal (Sibirionetta formosa) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Tribe: | Anatini |
Genus: | Sibirionetta Boetticher, 1758 |
Species | |
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Sibirionetta is a genus of dabbling duck which contains two species, an extant species Baikal teal (Sibirionetta formosa) and the fossil species Sibirionetta formozovi from the early Pleistocene of Baikalian Siberia.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Zelenkov, N.; Palastrova, E.; Martynovich, N.; Klementlev, A.; Sizov, A.; Volkova, N. (2023). "A tiny duck (Sibirionetta formozovi sp. nov.), a giant grey partridge (Titanoperdix felixi gen. et sp. nov.), a new rail (Porzana payevskyi sp. nov.), and other birds from the Early Pleistocene of Baikalian Siberia". Biological Communications. 68 (4): 261–272. doi:10.21638/spbu03.2023.406.