In a recent issue of the journal Zootaxa, researchers from the United States and Madagascar describe a new species of bird. The new bird has been dubbed beankaensis Mentocrex as gender Mentocrex is endemic to Madagascar and the new species beankaensis has been coined in relation to their environment, Beanka forest in west-central Madagascar. This species is distinguished from another of the same genus, known in the east of the island, Basner in features of size, plumage and DNA.
The discovery was possible with the joint efforts of the University of Antananarivo and the Association Vahatra in Madagascar as well as the Pritzker Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolution at the Field Museum in Chicago, which accounts the discovery in a statement.
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