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Mareca penelope (Eurasian wigeon)

Osteichthyes - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Taxonomy
Anas penelope was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Mareca.

It was recombined as Mareca penelope by Hay (1930), Clements et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Anas penelope Linnaeus p. 126
1930Mareca penelope Hay p. 305
1988Anas penelope Weesie p. 13 figs. Pl 2, fig 3
1998Anas penelope Burchak-Abramovich and Burchak p. 54
2008Anas penelope Zelenkov et al.
2017Mareca penelope Clements et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
RankNameAuthor
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
—PangalloanseraeGauthier and de Queiroz 2001
—GalloanseraeSibley and Ahlquist 1990
superorderGalloanserimorphae
orderAnseriformesWagler 1831
familyAnatidaeVigors 1825
genusMarecaStephens 1824
speciespenelope()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Mareca penelope Linnaeus 1758 [Eurasian wigeon]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available