Mauritius sheldgoose
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The Mauritius sheldgoose, also known as the Mauritius shelduck, is an extinct species of sheldgoose that was endemic to the island of Mauritius. While geese were mentioned by visitors to Mauritius in
Alopochen mauritianus
The related Egyptian goose
Illustration of a Dutch farm on Mauritius from 1670, which may include the only contemporary depiction of a Mauritius sheldgoose (between the streams, lower middle right)
Life restoration of Mauritius sheldgeese (left) and Mascarene teals (lower right) by Julian P. Hume, 1996
Alopochen
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Alopochen is a genus of the bird family Anatidae, part of the subfamily Tadorninae along with the shelducks. It contains one extant species, the Egyptian goose, and three which became extinct in the l
Mauritius sheldgoose
…to the contemporary accounts of geese and later determined to belong to a species related to the Egyptian goose and placed in the sheldgoose genus Alopochen. The Mauritius and Réunion sheldgoose may have descended from Egyptian geese that colonised the Mascarene Islands. One contemporary account states that…
Alopochen aegyptiacus
Presbyornis Enhancement
Chelychelynechen quassus