The New Zealand musk duck (Biziura delautouri Forbes, 1982)

Notornis

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-28

  Worthy, Trevor H ^a  

^a Palaeofaunal Surveys   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biziura delautouri; Morphology; New Zealand musk duck

Indexed keywords

BONE; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; WATERFOWL;

NEW ZEALAND;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANSER; BIZIURA; BIZIURA LOBATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036523612     PISSN: 00294470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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