''Amazonetta'' is a genus of

duck Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family (biology), family Anatidae. Ducks are generally smaller and shorter-necked than swans and goose, geese, which are members of the same family. Divided among several subfam ...

s that contains two species, an extant species, the

Brazilian teal The Brazilian teal or Brazilian duck (''Amazonetta brasiliensis'') is the only extant species of duck in the genus ''Amazonetta''. It is widely distributed in eastern South America. Taxonomy The Brazilian teal was Species description, formally ...

(''Amazonetta brasiliensis'') and the fossil species '' Amazonetta cubensis'' from the late

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...

of Cuba.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q10732450 Anatinae Taxa named by Hans von Boetticher Bird genera with one living species