The red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) is a diving duck, one of the sawbills. The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird, and serrator is a sawyer from Latin serra, "saw".
Taxonomy:genus | Mergus |
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Taxonomy:family | Anatidae |
Taxonomy:order | Anseriformes |
Taxonomy:class | Aves |