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White-winged Duck is indexed among the 9,479 entries in Vinony's Critically Endangered Species collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, White-winged Duck is referenced by 185 other articles, and connects out to Anseriformes, Anatinae and Muscovy Duck.
It sits within the topics Aythyinae, Birds described in 1842 and Birds of Northeast India.
Its subject is documented across 42 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Critically Endangeredvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Asarcornis
- Mass
- 72.3
- Image
- White-winged wood duck.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- taxon name
- Asarcornis scutulata
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Critically Endangered
- Commons category
- Asarcornis scutulata
- Commons gallery
- Asarcornis scutulata
- litter size
- 8.8
- taxon common name
- pato-d'asa-branca
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES
- short name
- A. scutulata
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Encyclopedic overview
The white-winged duck or white-winged wood duck (Asarcornis scutulata) is a large species of duck, formerly placed in the genus Cairina with the Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) and considered allied to the dabbling ducks. However, two genetic studies have indicated that the anatomical similarity to the Muscovy duck is deceiving, with the species appropriately placed in a monotypic genus, as Asarcornis scutulata; it proved evolutionarily closest to a clade containing the diving duck genera Netta and Aythya, while Cairina resolved as close to the genus Aix in a very different part of the family tree.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White-winged Duck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.