bermuda, flightless, duck, anas, pachyscelus, extinct, species, flightless, duck, which, endemic, island, bermuda, north, atlantic, ocean, described, 1960, alexander, wetmore, from, late, pleistocene, subfossil, remains, collected, 1956, bermudan, ornithologis. The Bermuda flightless duck Anas pachyscelus is an extinct species of flightless duck which was endemic to the island of Bermuda in the North Atlantic Ocean It was described in 1960 by Alexander Wetmore from Late Pleistocene subfossil remains collected in 1956 by Bermudan ornithologist David Wingate at the Wilkinson Quarry in Hamilton Parish 1 The holotype is a left tarsometatarsus Specimen No V22506 held in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D C 2 Bermuda flightless duckTemporal range Late Pleistocene Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Aves Order Anseriformes Family Anatidae Genus Anas Species A pachyscelus Binomial name Anas pachyscelusWetmore 1960 1 References edit a b Wetmore Alexander 1960 Pleistocene birds in Bermuda Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 140 2 1 11 Anas pachyscelus Wetmore Collections Search Centre Smithsonian Institution Retrieved 17 July 2013 nbsp This prehistoric bird article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This Anseriformes article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This Bermuda related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bermuda flightless duck amp oldid 1084230023, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
