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Cape Teal

Anas capensis

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Anatidae

The Cape teal (Anas capensis) also Cape wigeon or Cape widgeon is a 44–46 cm long dabbling duck of open wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa. Taxonomy The Cape teal was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the ducks, geese and swans in the genus Anas and coined the binomial name Anas capensis.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Belgium · 88Netherlands · 12Germany · 5United Kingdom · 2France · 1Italy · 1