Vegavis

Translingual

Etymology

From Vega (after Vega Island, Antarctica) + Latin avis (“bird”).

Proper noun

†Vegavis m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Vegaviidae – a single extinct bird species, most closely related to modern ducks and geese, that lived in Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Vegavis iaai (sole species)

References

• Vegavis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vegavis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Vegavis at Paleobiology Database
• 2017 October 7, F. L. Agnolín, F. B. Egli, S. Chatterjee, J. A. G. Marsà, F. E. Novas, Vegaviidae, a new clade of southern diving birds that survived the K/T boundary, Naturwissenschaften, 104(11-12):87, doi: 10.1007/s00114-017-1508-y