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Spur-winged Goose

Spur-winged Goose
:Animalia
:Chordata
:Aves
:Anseriformes
:Anatidae
:Plectropterus
:gambensis
Binomial name
Plectropterus gambensis
(Linnaeus, 1766)

The Spur-winged Goose, Plectropterus gambensis, is a large African bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae. It occurs in wetlands throughout sub-Saharan Africa.



07-14-2008 23:18:10
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