Biology:Scopus xenopus
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Short description: Extinct bird
| Scopus xenopus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Pelecaniformes |
| Family: | Scopidae |
| Genus: | Scopus |
| Species: | †S. xenopus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Scopus xenopus Olson, 1984
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Scopus xenopus is an extinct species of hamerkop that lived during the Pliocene of South Africa . It was first described by Storrs L. Olson in 1984. Compared to S. umbretta, the modern hamerkop, S. xenopus was larger and had a foot structure more adapted to swimming.[1]
References
- ↑ Olson, Storrs L. (January 1984). "A hamerkop from the early Pliocene of South Africa (Aves: Scopidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 97 (4). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237377743.
Wikidata ☰ Q65079187 entry
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