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What is a quagga?

What is a quagga? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A southern African subspecies of zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883, and the upper parts of which were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.
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You've heard of the zebra mussel, and you may have heard of its cousin, the quagga mussel.
The quagga is a placental mammal, a group also called Eutheria by scientists.
I can if you want technical details later on how the zebra and quagga mussels are promoting conditions to enhance this bacterial growth.
The first DNA to be extracted from an ancient specimen was from 150-year-old tissues from the quagga, an extinct relative of the zebra.
We have wiped out more species than I can name, from the dodo to the moa to the quagga to the thylacine.
Non-indigenous zebra mussels and quagga mussels have severely decreased native mussel populations.

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