Coues's gadwall | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Illustration of a male and female gadwall, with a male Coues's gadwall, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Genus: | Mareca |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | †M. s. couesi
|
Trinomial name | |
†Mareca strepera couesi (Streets, 1876)
| |
Synonyms | |
|
Coues's gadwall (Mareca strepera couesi) or the Washington Island gadwall, is an extinct dabbling duck which is only known by two immature specimens from the Pacific island of Teraina,[note 1] Line Islands, Kiribati.[2] They are in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.[2] The bird was named in honor of Elliott Coues.
Luther
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Cite error: There are <ref group=note>
tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}}
template (see the help page).