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Anserinae
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The Anserinae are a subfamily in the waterfowl family Anatidae and includes the swan and geese. Under alternative systematical concepts (see e.g., Terres & NAS, 1991), it is split into two subfamilies. The Anserinae contains geese and ducks, while the Cygninae contains the swans.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Anatidae
- Collections
- UTEP, CMN, KU
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
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The Anserinae are a subfamily in the waterfowl family Anatidae and includes the swan and geese. Under alternative systematical concepts (see e.g., Terres & NAS, 1991), it is split into two subfamilies. The Anserinae contains geese and ducks, while the Cygninae contains the swans.
==Systematics== Swans (Tribe Cygnini) Genus Cygnus – true swans: The black-and-yellow-billed swans are sometimes separated in the genus Olor. Genus †Afrocygnus (Miocene of North Africa) Genus †Annakacygna – short-winged swans (Miocene of Japan) Genus †Megalodytes (Miocene of California)
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