Amazonetta
| Amazonetta Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - Recent | |
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| Brazilian teal (Amazonetta braziliensis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Family: | Anatidae |
| Subfamily: | Anatinae |
| Genus: | Amazonetta Boetticher, 1929 |
| Species | |
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Amazonetta is a genus of ducks that contains two species, an extant species, the Brazilian teal (Amazonetta brasiliensis) and the fossil species Amazonetta cubensis from the late Pleistocene of Cuba. [1]
References
[edit]- ↑ Zelenkov, N. (2025). "A new duck (Aves: Anatidae) from the Upper Pleistocene of Cuba". Zootaxa. 5633 (1): 139–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5633.1.7.