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Chloephaga is a
genus of
sheldgeese in the
family Anatidae.
Other sheldgeese are
found in the
genera Alopochen and Neochen. The
genus Chloephaga was introduced...
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includes the
ducks and most duck-like
waterfowl such as the
geese and swans.
Sheldgeese resemble true
geese and
display similar habits, yet they are more closely...
- jubata) The
Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) The
South American sheldgeese in the
genus Chloephaga The
prehistoric Malagasy sheldgoose (Centrornis...
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extinct wildfowl, and
noted that the
interrelationships of the four
extinct sheldgeese from the
region of
Madagascar and the
western Indian Ocean were unclear...
- Réunion
sheldgoose Restorations of Réunion
sheldgeese (left, large) and
Mascarene teals (right, smaller) by
Julian P. Hume
Conservation status Extinct (c...
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Brisson 1760
Subfamily Tadorninae Reichenbach 1849–50 (shelducks and
sheldgeese)
Genus †Australotadorna
Worthy 2009
Genus †Brantadorna
Howard 1964 Genus...
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morphologically close to shelducks, and
particularly the
South American sheldgeese,
which have
highly similar courtship displays. However, mitochondrial...
- Plectropterus, spur-winged
goose Subfamily:
Tadorninae –
shelducks and
sheldgeese (This
group of larger,
often semiterrestrial waterfowl can be seen as...
- Maceira, N.O. (2018).
Winter po****tion size
estimations of
three migratory sheldgeese in the
southern pampas, Argentina. Waterbirds. 41(1): 16–21. Wikimedia...
- extinct) Neochen:
Orinoco goose and
Andean goose (South America) Chloephaga:
sheldgeese (South America; 4 species) Hymenolaimus: blue duck (New Zealand)—formerly...
