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Cygnus cygnus (whooper swan)
Taxonomy
Anas cygnus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Cygnus.
It was recombined as Cygnus cygnus by Hay (1930), Pavia and Insacco (2013), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Cygnus cygnus by Hay (1930), Pavia and Insacco (2013), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Anas cygnus Linnaeus p. 122 |
| 1809 | Cygnus musicus Bechstein |
| 1930 | Cygnus cygnus Hay p. 300 |
| 2013 | Cygnus cygnus Pavia and Insacco p. 159 figs. Pl 1, fig 2 |
| 2014 | Cygnus cygnus del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Cygnus cygnus Clements et al. |
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Cygnus cygnus Linnaeus 1758 [whooper swan]
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Invalid names: Cygnus musicus Bechstein 1809 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subf = subfamily, o = order | |||||
| References: Sedinger 1997, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Malta | Cygnus musicus (190860) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy | Cygnus cygnus (197926) | |
| Holocene | Åland Islands | Cygnus cygnus (177177) |