An Evaluation of the Fossil Anhingas of Australia
- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 68 (4) , 315-320
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1365447
Abstract
A review of the type material of darters or anhingas previously described from the Pleistocene of Australian shows that Anhinga parya (De Vis) is a small cormorant identifiable as Halietor melanoleucos. A. laticeps (De Vis) proves to be a distinct sp. of darFer in whichthe base of the rostrum and the interorbital area are significantly broader and less specialized than in modern anhingas. Anhinga bones inseparable from those of the modern A. novaehollandiae of Australia are recorded from the early Pleistocene (5 specimens) of the Lake Eyre region of Australia and from the late Pleistocene (4 specimens) of this same area. The distinctive A. laticeps also occurred there in the late Pleistocene.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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