| Scopus xenopus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Pelecaniformes |
| Family: | Scopidae |
| Genus: | Scopus |
| Species: | †S. xenopus
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| †Scopus xenopus Olson, 1984
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Scopus xenopus is an extinct species of hamerkop that lived during the Pliocene of South Africa. It was first described by Storrs L. Olson in 1984. Compared to S. umbretta, the modern hamerkop, S. xenopus was larger and had a foot structure more adapted to swimming.[1]
- ^ Olson, Storrs L. (January 1984). "A hamerkop from the early Pliocene of South Africa (Aves: Scopidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 97 (4) – via ResearchGate.