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Cygninae (swan)
Taxonomy
Cygninini was named as a tribe. It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Cygninae by Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Brodkorb (1964), Kurochkin (1968), Howard (1972); it was misspelled as Cygnini by Matsuoka et al. (2001); it was corrected as Cygnini by Livezey and Martin (1988), Louchart et al. (2008), Gonzalez et al. (2009), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was assigned to Anatidae by Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Brodkorb (1964), Kurochkin (1968), Howard (1972); and to Anserinae by Livezey and Martin (1988), Matsuoka et al. (2001), Louchart et al. (2008), Gonzalez et al. (2009), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was reranked as the subfamily Cygninae by Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Brodkorb (1964), Kurochkin (1968), Howard (1972); it was misspelled as Cygnini by Matsuoka et al. (2001); it was corrected as Cygnini by Livezey and Martin (1988), Louchart et al. (2008), Gonzalez et al. (2009), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was assigned to Anatidae by Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Brodkorb (1964), Kurochkin (1968), Howard (1972); and to Anserinae by Livezey and Martin (1988), Matsuoka et al. (2001), Louchart et al. (2008), Gonzalez et al. (2009), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1930 | Cygninae Hay p. 300 |
| 1933 | Cygninae Lambrecht p. 379 |
| 1940 | Cygninae Wetmore p. 19 |
| 1956 | Cygninae Wetmore p. 24 |
| 1964 | Cygninae Brodkorb p. 208 |
| 1968 | Cygninae Kurochkin p. 92 |
| 1972 | Cygninae Howard p. 9 |
| 1988 | Cygnini Livezey and Martin p. 208 |
| 2001 | Cygnini Matsuoka et al. p. 1 |
| 2008 | Cygnini Louchart et al. p. 158 |
| 2009 | Cygnini Gonzalez et al. |
| 2014 | Cygnini del Hoyo et al. |
| 2020 | Cygnini Worthy and Nguyen p. 76 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. Cygninae [swan]
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G. †Cygnanser Kretzoi 1957
G. Cygnus Garsault 1764
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Subg. Cygnus (Olor) Wagler 1832
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†Cygnus (Olor) mariae Bickart 1990
Subg. Olor (Clangocycnus) Oberholser 1908
Subg. Olor (Olor) Wagler 1832
†Olor matthewi Schufeldt 1913
Subg. Cygnus (Sthenelides) Stejneger 1884
Cygnus atratus Latham 1790 [black swan]
Cygnus buccinator Richardson 1832 [trumpeter swan]
Cygnus columbianus Ord 1815 [tundra swan]
Cygnus columbianus bewickii Yarrell 1830 [Bewick's swan]
†Cygnus csakvarensis Lambrecht 1933
†Cygnus equitum Bate 1916
†Cygnus falconeri Parker 1865
†Cygnus herenthalsi Van Beneden 1873
†Cygnus hibbardi Brodkorb 1958
†Cygnus matthewi Shufeldt 1913
Cygnus melancoryphus Molina 1782 [Black-necked swan]
Cygnus olor Gmelin 1789 [mute swan]
†Cygnus pristinus Kurochkin 1971
†Cygnus sumnerensis Forbes 1889
†Cygnus sumnerensis chathamensis Oliver 1955
G. †Megalodytes
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available