Goldeneyes
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Genus: Bucephala Boie, 1822
Species
B. clangula B. islandica B. albeola Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Binomial name Bucephala clangula (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies (Eurasian Goldeneye) (American Goldeneye) The Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... For other meanings of bird, see bird (disambiguation). ... Families Anhimidae Anseranatidae Anatidae †Dromornithidae †Presbyornithidae The order Anseriformes contains about 150 species of birds in three families: the Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the Magpie-goose), and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans. ... Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Thalassorninae Anserinae Stictonettinae Plectropterinae Tadorninae Anatinae Aythyinae Merginae Oxyurinae and see text Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swan. ... Heinrich Boie (May 4, 1784 - September 4, 1827) was a German zoologist. ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

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Goldeneye are small tree-hole nesting northern hemisphere seaducks belonging to the genus Bucephala. Their plumage is black and white, and they eat fish, crustaceans and other marine life. Northern hemisphere highlighted in yellow. ... Genera Polysticta Somateria Histrionicus Camptorhynchus Melanitta Clangula Bucephala Mergellus Lophodytes Mergus &#8224; For other ducks, see also: Anatidae The seaducks, Merginae, form a subfamily of the duck, goose and swan family of birds, Anatidae. ... For other uses, see Genus (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fish (disambiguation). ... For the Dutch band, see Crustacean (band). ...

The three living species are

• Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
• Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica
• Bufflehead Bucephala albeola

Known fossil taxa are: Binomial name Bucephala clangula (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies (Eurasian Goldeneye) (American Goldeneye) The Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. ... Binomial name Bucephala islandica (Gmelin, 1789) The Barrows Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) is a medium-sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. ... Binomial name Bucephala albeola (Linnaeus, 1758) The Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. ... For other uses, see Fossil (disambiguation). ... A taxon (plural taxa) is an element of a taxonomy, e. ...

• Bucephala cereti (Sajóvölgyi Middle Miocene of Mátraszõlõs, Hungary - Late Pliocene of Chilhac, France)
• Bucephala ossivalis (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Bone Valley, USA), which was very similar to the Common Goldeneye and may even have been a paleosubspecies or direct ancestor
• Bucephala fossilis (Late Pliocene of California, USA)
• Bucephala angustipes (Early Pleistocene of C Europe)
• Bucephala sp. (Early Pleistocene of Dursunlu, Turkey: Louchart et al. 1998)

A chronospecies is a species which changes physically, morphologically, genetically, and/or behaviorally over time on an evolutionary scale such that the originating species and the species it becomes could not be classified as the same species had they existed at the same point in time. ...

References

• Louchart, Antoine; Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile; Guleç, Erksin; Howell, Francis Clark & White, Tim D. (1998): L'avifaune de Dursunlu, Turquie, Pléistocène inférieur: climat, environnement et biogéographie. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris IIA 327(5): 341-346. [French with English abridged version] doi:10.1016/S1251-8050(98)80053-0 (HTML abstract)