African and Mascarene Sheldgeese
Alopochen
Alopochen is a genus of the bird family Anatidae, part of the subfamily Tadorninae along with the shelducks. It contains one extant species, the Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca), and two or three species which became extinct in the last 1000 years or so. The Egyptian goose is native to mainland Africa, and the extinct species are from Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
Egyptian Goose
speciesAlopochen aegyptiaca
Antsirabe Sheldgoose
speciesAlopochen sirabensis
Réunion Shelduck
speciesAlopochen kervazoi
Mauritius Shelduck
speciesAlopochen mauritiana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 7129.