New Zealand Musk Duck
Biziura delautouri
The New Zealand musk duck (Biziura delautouri), also known as de Lautour’s duck, is an extinct stiff-tailed duck native to New Zealand. It is only known from prehistoric subfossil bones. Its closest relative was the living Australian musk duck Biziura lobata, with which it has sometimes been combined.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 201442.