Species
Least ConcernChile Central
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Merganetta
- Mass
- +335
- Image
- TorrentDuckF.jpg
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- P105
- species
- P141
- Least Concern
- P9714
- South America
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The torrent duck (Merganetta armata) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is the only member of the genus Merganetta. It is placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae after the "perching duck" assemblage to which it was formerly assigned was dissolved because it turned out to be paraphyletic.