Anas marecula

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	ANSERIFORMES	ANATIDAE

Scientific Name:	Anas marecula
Species Authority:	Olson & Jouventin, 1996
Common Name/s: English – Amsterdam Duck, Amsterdam Island Duck

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct     ver 3.1
Year Published:	2008
Assessor/s:	BirdLife International
Reviewer/s:	Bird, J., Butchart, S.
History:	2004 – Extinct 2000 – Extinct 1994 – Extinct 1988 – Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Anas marecula was endemic to Amsterdam Island, French Southern Territories1. It is only known from bones "no more than a few hundred years old". A report of "a small brown duck, not much larger than a thrush" from Barrow's 1793 visit to the neighbouring St Paul Island presumably refers to the same or a similar species1. It is thought to have become extinct soon after the last report in 1793.
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It was flightless, and is likely to have inhabited small freshwater pools and lakes.
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

It was presumably hunted to extinction extinction by whalers stopping off on the island1.

Bibliography [top]

Olson, S. L.; Jouventin, P. 1996. A new species of small flightless duck from Amsterdam Island, southern Indian Ocean (Anatidae: Aves). Condor 98: 1-9.