Cairina Fleming, 1822

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 101

Cairina Fleming

270. Cairina moschata (Linnaeus)

Quaternary – MG, PI, RJ

Anas [in part] – Lund (in Winge 1887): 22.

Anatid. sp., s. under Cairina moschata [in part] – Winge 1887: 13. Cairina moschata [in part] – Winge 1887: 14.

Cairina moschata (et forte sp. alia) – Winge 1887: 22.

Cairina moschata – Goeldi 1894: 603.

Cairina moschata – Lambrecht 1933: 743.

Cairina moschata – Brodkorb 1964: 238.

Cairina moschata – Cuello 1988: 35.

Cairina moschata – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 490.

Winge (1887) reported remains from three localities. From Lapa da Pedra dos Índios, a humerus (“ Anas ” in Lund’s catalog). From Lapa da Lagoa do Sumidouro, an ulna and a tibiotarsus, besides the first part of pedal digit III that possibly belongs to this species and the distal end of a tibiotarsus and the proximal end of a carpometacarpus that possibly belong to a female. Finally, from Lapa da Escrivânia XI, several bones, including a humerus he considered with much uncertainty that might belong to a small female.

Anseriformes ? [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993a: 198.

Anseriformes ? [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993b: 328.

Cairina moschata – Guérin et al. 1996: 84.

Cairina moschata – Guérin et al. 2002: 136.

Guérin et al. (1996) reported this species from Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião. At least one adult individual is present in the material .

Cairina moschata – Kneip et al. 1994: 50.

Anatidae (“marreca, pato-do-mato”) [in part] – Kneip et al. 1995: 7.

Anatidae (“marreca, pato-do-mato”) [in part] – Kneip et al. 1997: 19, 37.

Anatidae (“marreca, pato-do-mato”) [in part] – Magalhães et al. 2001: 59.

Kneip et al. (1994) reported a bone from layer I (younger than 1,790±50 years BP) and another from layer III (1,810±40 years BP) of Sambaqui da Pontinha in Saquarema , Rio de Janeiro .