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Anser (bird)

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Anser
Temporal range: Miocene-Holocene
Greylag geese (pair), Anser anser
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Faimily: Anatidae
Tribe: Anserini
Vigors 1825
Genus: Anser
Brisson, 1760
Teep species
Anser anser
Greylag guiss
Speshies

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Synonyms

Chen Boie, 1822 (but see text)
Cygnopsis Brandt, 1836
Cycnopsis Agassiz, 1846 (emendation)
Eulabeia Reichenbach, 1852
Philacte Bannister, 1870
Heterochen Short, 1970 (but see text)

The watterfoul genus Anser[1] includes aw gray geese (an sometimes the white geese). The maist common is the graylag geese. It belangs tae the true geese an swan subfaimily (Anserinae).[2]

References

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  1. Linné, Carl von; Linné, Carl von; Salvius, Lars (1758). Caroli Linnaei...Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. v.1. Holmiae: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii.
  2. Cottrell, G. William; Cottrell, G. William; Greenway, James C.; Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A; Peters, James Lee; Traylor, Melvin A (1979). Check-list of birds of the world. v.1:ed.2 (1979). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 434.