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Bucephala albeola (bufflehead)

Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Taxonomy
Anas albeola was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type specimen is 1. It is the type species of Charitonetta.

It was recombined as Charitonetta albeola by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942) and Howard (1946); it was recombined as Bucephala albeola by Wetmore (1956), Wetmore (1962), Emslie (1992), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Broughton (2004), Guthrie (2010) and Clements et al. (2017).

Subspecies
B. fossilis
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
B. cereti

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Anas albeola Linnaeus
1930Charitonetta albeola Hay p. 307
1940Charitonetta albeola Wetmore p. 26
1942Charitonetta albeola Miller and DeMay p. 89
1946Charitonetta albeola Howard
1956Bucephala albeola Wetmore p. 32
1962Bucephala albeola Wetmore p. 6
1992Bucephala albeola Emslie p. 257
2001Bucephala albeola Olson and Rasmussen p. 290
2004Bucephala albeola Broughton p. 22
2010Bucephala albeola Guthrie p. 3
2017Bucephala albeola Clements et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—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
subfamilyAnatinaeVigors 1825
tribeMerginiBonaparte 1838
genusBucephalaBaird 1858
speciesalbeola()

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.

Bucephala albeola Linnaeus 1758 [bufflehead]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: freshwatersubf
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: volantsubf
Diet: herbivoresubf
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 19:26:23
Modified: 2009-01-03 21:26:23
Source: subf = subfamily, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Sedinger 1997

Age range: base of the Blancan to the top of the Holocene or 4.90000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (20 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) Bucephala albeola (52582)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Florida) Bucephala albeola (19753)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (Florida) Bucephala albeola (19750)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Florida) Bucephala albeola (20400)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Bucephala albeola (20639) Bucephala fossilis (192287)
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012USA (California) Bucephala albeola (84881 84885)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Virginia) Bucephala albeola (82258)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Bucephala albeola (20595)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Bucephala albeola (154773)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Bucephala albeola (176267 236636) Charitonetta albeola (44954)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Georgia) Bucephala albeola (84190)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (California) Bucephala albeola (194906 194907 194912 194914 194926)