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