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Bucephala
Taxonomy
Bucephala was named by Baird (1858). It is extant.
It was assigned to Aythyinae by Wetmore (1956); to Merginae by Brodkorb (1964), Brodkorb (1967) and Howard (1972); to Mergini by Emslie (1992), Olson and Rasmussen (2001) and Gonzalez et al. (2009); and to Anatidae by Brodkorb (1955), Wetmore (1962) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Aythyinae by Wetmore (1956); to Merginae by Brodkorb (1964), Brodkorb (1967) and Howard (1972); to Mergini by Emslie (1992), Olson and Rasmussen (2001) and Gonzalez et al. (2009); and to Anatidae by Brodkorb (1955), Wetmore (1962) and Clements et al. (2017).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1858 | Bucephala Baird |
| 1885 | Charitonetta Stejneger |
| 1891 | Glaucionetta Shufeldt p. 819 |
| 1902 | Glaucionetta Hay p. 530 |
| 1930 | Charitonetta Hay p. 307 |
| 1940 | Charitonetta Wetmore p. 26 |
| 1940 | Glaucionetta Wetmore p. 26 |
| 1955 | Bucephala Brodkorb p. 18 |
| 1956 | Bucephala Wetmore p. 32 |
| 1962 | Bucephala Wetmore p. 6 |
| 1964 | Bucephala Brodkorb p. 330 |
| 1967 | Bucephala Brodkorb p. 110 |
| 1972 | Bucephala Howard p. 11 |
| 1992 | Bucephala Emslie p. 257 |
| 2001 | Bucephala Olson and Rasmussen p. 289 |
| 2009 | Bucephala Gonzalez et al. |
| 2017 | Bucephala Clements et al. |
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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.
G. Bucephala Baird 1858
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Bucephala albeola Linnaeus 1758 [bufflehead]
†Bucephala albeola fossilis Howard 1963
†Bucephala angustipes Jánossy 1965
Bucephala clangula Linnaeus 1758 [common goldeneye]
Bucephala islandica Gmelin 1789 [Barrow's goldeneye]
†Bucephala ossivallis Brodkorb 1955
Invalid names: Charitonetta Stejneger 1885 [synonym], Glaucionetta Someguy [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available