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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Anatidae .
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Examples
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Birds include Denham's bustard Neotis cafra denhami, ground hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus, violet turaco Musophaga violacea, spur-winged goose Plectropterus gambensis, white-faced tree duck Dendrocygna viduata, martial eagle Polemaetus bellicosus and bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus.
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- Northern spur-winged goose (Plectropterus gambensis gambensis).
5 Chicken 1991
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Plectropterus as they're borne on the extensor process.
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Plectropterus hand skeleton shown here; from Rand (1954)].
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Plectropterus gambensis, the Spur-winged goose, the spur is an extension of the radiale: one of the two distal carpal bones [
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