The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Prister
(Anatidae; syn. Mergus † Brazilian Merganser M. octosetaceus) Gr. πριστηρ pristēr, πριστηρος pristēros sawyer < πριω priō to saw (alluding to the serrated bill); "Genus Prister Heine. 1. brasilianus (Vieill.)" (Heine 1890); "Prister Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Orn. Hein., p. 350, 1890—type, by monotypy, Mergus brasilianus Vieillot [= Mergus octosetaceus Vieillot]." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 406).
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