New Zealand musk duck

New Zealand musk duck; Temporal range: Late Holocene
	Type specimen from the collections of Te Papa
Conservation status
	Extinct (1500s)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Anseriformes
Family:	Anatidae
Genus:	Biziura
Species:	†B. delautouri
Binomial name
	†Biziura delautouri; Forbes, 1892
Synonyms
	Biziura lautouri;

The New Zealand musk duck (Biziura delautouri), also known as de Lautour's duck, is an extinct stiff-tailed duck native to New Zealand. It is only known from subfossil bones. It was 10 percent larger than its closest living relative, the Australian musk duck Biziura lobata,^[2] with which it has sometimes been combined.

^ Forbes, H.O. (1892). "On a recent discovery of the remains of extinct birds in New Zealand". Nature. 45 (March): 416–418. Bibcode:1892Natur..45R.416F. doi:10.1038/045416e0.
^ Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2006). Extinct birds of New Zealand. Paul Martinson. Wellington, N.Z.: Te Papa Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8. OCLC 80016906.

[1] Forbes, H.O. (1892). "On a recent discovery of the remains of extinct birds in New Zealand". Nature. 45 (March): 416–418. Bibcode:1892Natur..45R.416F. doi:10.1038/045416e0.

[2] Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2006). Extinct birds of New Zealand. Paul Martinson. Wellington, N.Z.: Te Papa Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8. OCLC 80016906.

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