Amazonetta cubensis, Zelenkov, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.1.7 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15372731 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D36B436C-1270-FFBB-FF47-FCCB3714FA82 |
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Amazonetta cubensis |
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sp. nov. |
Amazonetta cubensis sp. nov.
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Holotype: PIN 5781 View Materials /40 ( Figures 2B View FIGURE 2 , 3B View FIGURE 3 , 4B View FIGURE 4 ), complete left humerus.
Diagnosis: a relatively small duck, similar in overall proportions, morphology and size of the humerus to modern Amazonetta brasiliensis , but with shaft thinner, crista bicipitalis more steeply oriented, tuberculum dorsale less proximally protruding, imprint of the m. pectoralis smaller.
Type Locality and age: El Abrón Cave ; Western Cuba, Pinar-del-Río province; Late Pleistocene.
Etymology: Species name is referred to the currently known Cuban occurrence. Suggested common name is Cuban teal.
Material: Holotype only.
Measurements (mm): Total length 66.8; maximum proximal width (through tuberculum dorsale) 15.5; proximal width from tuberculum dorsale to ventral edge of caput humeri 11.9; craniocaudal thickness of caput humeri 5.6; minimum dorsoventral depth of the shaft 5.1; maximum width of the shaft in the central part 5.7; maximum (oblique) distal width 11.6; dorsoventral distal width 10.6; height through condylus dorsalis 6.5.
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