Madagascar Grebe
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| Madagascar Grebe | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Podicipediformes |
| Family: | Podicipedidae |
| Genus: | Tachybaptus |
| Species: | T. pelzelnii |
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| Tachybaptus pelzelnii (Hartlaub, 1861) |
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The Madagascar Grebe (Tachybaptus pelzelnii) is a grebe found only in western and central Madagascar. It is classified as Vulnerable, with a population of less than 5,000. The most serious threat is, in the west, from reduction of habitat, especially by rice cultivation. Elsewhere predation by carnivorous fish is a problem, and the introduction of exotic, herbivorous fish has limited the development of aquatic vegetation and favoured Little Grebe.
The binomial name commemorates the Austrian ornithologist August von Pelzeln.
[edit] References
- ^ BirdLife International (2008). Tachybaptus pelzelnii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2008-11-04.
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