Chatham Island merganser

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

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.

  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.