What is Coscoroba swan?
{{Taxobox | name = Swans | image = Coscoroba.swan.2.arp.750pix.jpg | image_width = 256px | image_caption = A coscoroba swan (''Coscoroba coscoroba'') | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Anseriformes]] | familia = [[Anatidae]] | subfamilia = [[Anserinae]] | genus = '''''Coscoroba'''''}} [[File:South America Coscoroba.png|thumb|right|Where ''Coscoroba'' is found in South America and Falklands Islands]] The '''coscoroba swan''' (''Coscoroba coscoroba'') is a distant relative of the true swan. Many specialists merge this genus, ''Coscoroba'', with [[ducks]], like [[whistling ducks]]. The coscoroba swan is found in [[South America]] from southern [[Chile]] and central [[Argentina]] south to [[Tierra del Fuego]] and the [[Falkland Islands]]. Recent genetic studies have found a relationship between this species and Cape Barren goose (''[[Cereopsis novaehollandiae]]''). They are [[sister group]]s.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bij.12202/abstract | doi=10.1111/bij.12202 | title=Chromosomal studies on ''Coscoroba'' coscoroba(Aves: Anseriformes) reinforce the ''Coscoroba''-Cereopsisclade | year=2014 | last1=Rodrigues | first1=Benilson S. | last2=De Assis | first2=Maria De Fatima L. | last3=O'Brien | first3=Patricia C. M. | last4=Ferguson-Smith | first4=Malcolm A. | last5=De Oliveira | first5=Edivaldo H. C. | journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume=111 | issue=2 | pages=274–279 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == *Birdlife. [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=372&m=0#] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104234831/http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=372&m=0 |date=2009-01-04 }} {{-}} {{biology-stub}} {{commons}} [[Category:Swans]] [[Category:Birds of South America]]