anatid

📅 Updated:2026-08-31

🕒 Created:2021-12-20

🆔 ID:39162

Description

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The Anatidae are the largest family of birds living on water: it includes geese, swans, ducks etc...

Partial Taxonomy

Subfamily Anatinae

Subfamily Anatinae
- Tribe Anatini — dabbling duck
  - Anas
    - Anas carolinensis — green-winged teal
    - Anas crecca — Eurasian teal
    - Anas platyrhynchos — mallard
      - Anas platyrhynchos domesticus — domestic duck
    - Anas poecilorhyncha — Indian spot-billed duck
    - Anas rubripes — American black duck
    - Anas zonorhyncha — eastern spot-billed duck
  - Callonetta
    - Callonetta leucophrys — ringed teal
  - Sibirionetta
    - Sibirionetta formosa — Baikal teal
  - Spatula
    - Spatula cyanoptera — cinnamon teal
    - Spatula discors — blue-winged teal
- Tribe Aythyini — diving duck
  - Marmaronetta
    - Marmaronetta angustirostris — marbled duck
- Tribe Mergini — sea duck
  - †Camptorhynchus
    - †Camptorhynchus labradorius — Labrador duck
  - Clangula
    - Clangula hyemalis — long-tailed duck
  - Histrionicus
    - Histrionicus histrionicus — harlequin duck
  - Lophodytes
    - Lophodytes cucullatus — hooded merganser
  - Mergus — sawbill
    - Mergellus albellus — smew
  - Polysticta
    - Polysticta stelleri — Steller's eider
  - Somateria — eider
    - Somateria fischeri — spectacled eider
    - Somateria mollissima — common eider
    - Somateria spectabilis — king eider
- Tribe Oxyurini
  - Biziura
    - Biziura lobata — musk duck
  - Nettapus — pygmy goose
    - Nettapus pulchellus — green pygmy goose
  - Oxyura — stiff-tailed duck
    - Oxyura jamaicensis — ruddy duck
    - Oxyura vittata — lake duck
- Tribe Tadornini
  - Aix
    - Aix galericulata — Mandarin duck
    - Aix sponsa — wood duck
  - Cairina
    - Cairina moschata — Muscovy duck
      - Cairina moschata domestica — domestic Muscovy duck
  - Chloephaga — sheldgoose
    - Chloephaga poliocephala — ashy-headed goose
  - Malacorhynchus
    - Malacorhynchus membranaceus — pink-eared duck
  - Merganetta
    - Merganetta armata — torrent duck
  - Salvadorina
    - Salvadorina waigiuensis — Salvadori's teal
  - Sarkidiornis
    - Sarkidiornis sylvicola — comb duck
  - Tachyeres — streamer duck
  - Tadorna — shelduck

Subfamily Anserinae

Subfamily Anserinae
- Tribe Anserini — goose
  - Anser
    - Anser anser — greylag goose
      - Anser anser domesticus — domestic greylag goose
    - Anser caerulescens — snow goose
    - Anser canagicus — emperor goose
    - Anser cygnoides — swan goose
      - Anser cygnoides domesticus — domestic swan goose
    - Anser indicus — bar-headed goose
  - Branta
    - Branta bernicla — brant goose
    - Branta canadensis — Canada goose
    - Branta leucopsis — barnacle goose
    - Branta ruficollis — red-breasted goose
    - Branta sandvicensis — nēnē
- Tribe Cereopseini
  - Cereopsis
    - Cereopsis novaehollandiae — Cape Barren goose
- Tribe Cygnini — swan
  - Cygnus
    - Cygnus atratus — black swan
    - Cygnus buccinator — trumpeter swan
    - Cygnus columbianus — tundra swan
    - Cygnus cygnus — whooper swan
    - †Cygnus falconeri — giant swan
    - Cygnus olor — mute swan

Subfamily Dendrocygninae
- Dendrocygna — whistling duck
  - Dendrocygna eytoni — plumed whistling duck
  - Dendrocygna viduata — white-faced whistling duck