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Anseriformes is an order of birds belonging to the clade Galloanseres.It consists of 3 families, 58 genera and 171 living species. [1] [2] Extinct species assignment follows the Mikko's Phylogeny Archive [3] and Paleofile.com websites. [4]
Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans. Most modern species in the ...
Anseriformes (Anser being Latin for "goose") is the taxonomic order to which the ducks, geese, swans, and screamers belong. BirdLife International has assessed 166 species; 89 (54% of total species) have had their population estimated.
The order Anseriformes contains about 150 species of bird in three families: the Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the Magpie-goose), and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.
The living and assignable prehistoric avifauna of the archipelago contains as Anseriformes Branta geese and their descendants, and the moa-nalos as mentioned above.
This family is placed in the order Anseriformes, having the characteristic bill structure, but is considered to be distinct from the other families in this taxon.The related and extant families, Anhimidae and Anatidae (ducks, geese and swans), contain all the other taxa.
Whistling duck taxonomy, including that of the entire order Anseriformes, is complicated and disputed. [4] Under a traditional classification proposed by ornithologist Jean Théodore Delacour based on morphological and behavioral traits, [5] [6] whistling ducks belong to the tribe Dendrocygnini under the family Anatidae and subfamily Anserinae.
The spotted whistling duck, Dendrocygna guttata, was first reported in 1866. [9] Like all other birds, it is an animal in the phylum Chordata and the class Aves.The spotted whistling duck is a part of the order Anseriformes, which includes all waterfowl.