A phylogenetic reassessment of the tadornine-anatine divergence (aves: anseriformes: Anatidae)

Annals of Carnegie Museum

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-88

  Livezey, Bradley C ^a  

^a Section of Birds   (United States)

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