Scopus xenopus

{{Short description|Extinct bird}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Pliocene}}

| extinct = yes

| genus = Scopus

| species = xenopus

| authority = Olson, 1984

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Scopus xenopus is an extinct species of bird related to the hamerkop that lived during the Pliocene of South Africa. It was first described by Storrs L. Olson in 1984. Compared to S. umbretta, the modern hamerkop, S. xenopus was larger and had a foot structure more adapted to swimming.{{cite journal |first=Storrs L. |last=Olson |date=January 1984 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237377743 |title=A hamerkop from the early Pliocene of South Africa (Aves: Scopidae) |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |volume=97 |issue=4 |via=ResearchGate}}