Coues's gadwall
| Coues's gadwall | |
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| Illustration of a male and female gadwall, with a male Coues's gadwall, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Family: | Anatidae |
| Genus: | Mareca |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †M. s. couesi |
| Trinomial name | |
| †Mareca strepera couesi (Streets, 1876) | |
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Coues's gadwall (Mareca strepera couesi) or the Washington Island gadwall, is an extinct dabbling duck which is only known by two immature specimens from the Pacific island of Teraina, Line Islands, Kiribati. They are in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The bird was named in honor of Elliott Coues.
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