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Mascarene Teal
Plate 1 of 2. (c) Julian P. Hume, published with H. Glyn Young and Simon J. Tonge, osa oikeuksista pidätetään (CC BY-SA) · via iNaturalist
IUCN EX · Extinct

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Mascarene Teal

Anas theodori

The Mascarene teal (Anas theodori), also known as Sauzier's teal and Mauritian duck, is an extinct dabbling duck that formerly occurred on the islands of Mauritius and Réunion. It was a small teal of the Anas gibberifrons superspecies of the Anas subgenus Nettion. Its closest relative is probably Bernier's teal from Madagascar and, apart from having stronger wings and being considerably bigger (between a Sunda teal and a mallard in size), it seems to have looked...

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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 94032.