Editing Bernier's teal (section)

==Taxonomy==
[[File:Bernier's Teal RWD.jpg|left|thumb|At Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park, North Carolina]]
The Bernier's teal was first [[Species description|described]] by the German ornithologist [[Gustav Hartlaub]] in 1860 under the [[binomial name]] ''Querquedula bernieri''.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Hartlaub | first=Gustav | author-link=Gustav Hartlaub | year=1860 | title=Systematische Uebersicht der Vögel Madagascars | journal=Journal für Ornithologie |  language=German, Latin | volume=8 | issue=45 | pages=161–180 [173–174] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32706981 | doi=10.1007/bf02015735| bibcode=1860JOrni...8..161H | s2cid=40507234 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1979 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=1 | edition=2nd | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=467 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16109107 }}</ref> It is one of many [[dabbling duck]]s in the genus ''[[Anas]]''.<ref name="ITIS"/> It is one of the "grey teals", a group of related ducks found across Australasia. [[DNA]] studies suggest that it may have been a [[sister species]] with [[Sauzier's teal]] (which was found on the nearby islands of [[Mauritius]] and [[Réunion]] until it became extinct). Studies further suggest that its closest living relative is the [[Andaman teal]], and confirm that it is related to the [[gray teal]].<ref name = "Oxford"/> There are no subspecies.<ref name="Monroe"/>

The duck's [[common name|common]] and [[specific name (zoology)|species names]] both commemorate [[Chevalier Bernier]], a French [[ship's doctor|naval surgeon]] and [[naturalist]] who collected nearly 200 specimens of various species while stationed in Madagascar.<ref name = "Beolens"/> The genus name ''Anas'' is a [[Latin]] word meaning "duck".<ref name="Jobling"/>