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Mareca americana (American wigeon)

Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Taxonomy
Anas americana was named by Gmelin (1789). It is extant.

It was misspelled as Anas americanus by Harris (1987), Emslie (1992), Olson and Rasmussen (2001) and Kilmer and Steadman (2016); it was recombined as Mareca americana by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Howard (1946), Wetmore (1956) and Clements et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1789Anas americana Gmelin
1902Anas americana Hay p. 529
1930Mareca americana Hay p. 305
1940Mareca americana Wetmore p. 24
1942Mareca americana Miller and DeMay p. 86
1946Mareca americana Howard p. 174
1956Mareca americana Wetmore p. 30
1987Anas americanus Harris
1992Anas americana Emslie p. 257
2001Anas americana Olson and Rasmussen p. 285
2016Anas americana Kilmer and Steadman p. 8 fig. 6H
2017Mareca americana 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
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
speciesamericana(Gmelin 1789)

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 americana Gmelin 1789 [American wigeon]
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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: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: volanto
Diet: herbivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 19:27:52
Modified: 2009-01-03 21:27:52
Source: o = order
References: Sedinger 1997, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Blancan to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 4.90000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (13 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) Anas americana (52582)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Florida) Anas americana (19753)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Florida) Anas americana (20400)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Mareca americana (20639)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (Florida) Anas americana (195049)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Mareca americana (154773)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Anas americanus (76059)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Georgia) Anas americana (20613)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Mareca americana (44954 215552)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Oregon) Anas americana (176222) Mareca americana (93251)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Mexico (Mexico) Anas americana (192627)