Waterbirds
Least Concern
Quick Facts
Mass0.465 kg
Facts sourced from Wikidata (CC0).
The torrent duck 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.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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