Anserinae
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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Anserinae''
| image = Anser cygnoides-Beijing.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| image_caption = A [[Swan Goose]] (''Anser cygnoides'')
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[bird|Aves]]
| ordo = [[Anseriformes]]
| familia = [[Anatidae]]
| subfamilia = '''''Anserinae'''''
| subfamilia_authority = [[Nicholas Aylward Vigors|Vigors]], 1825
| subdivision_ranks = [[genus|Genera]]
| subdivision =
see text
| synonyms =
Cygninae
}}
The '''Anserinae''' is a [[subfamily]] in the [[waterfowl]] family [[Anatidae]]. It includes the [[swan]]s and true [[Goose|geese]]. Under alternative [[systematics|systematical]] concepts (see e.g. Terres & NAS, 1991), it is split into two subfamilies, the Anserinae containing the geese (and also the [[whistling-duck]]s), while the '''Cygninae''' contain the swans.
A number of other waterbirds, mainly related to the [[Tadorninae|shelduck]]s, have "goose" as part of their name; see the family page at [[Anatidae]] and the [[goose]] page for these.
==Systematics==
'''[[Swan]]s''' - [[tribe (biology)|tribe]] '''Cygnini'''
*Genus '''''[[Cygnus (genus)|Cygnus]]''''' - '''true swans'''
:The black-and-yellow-billed swans are sometimes separated in the genus ''Olor''.
'''True [[Geese]]''' - tribe '''Anserini'''
*Genus '''''[[Anser (genus)|Anser]]''''' - '''grey geese'''
*Genus '''''[[Chen (genus)|Chen]]''''' - '''white geese''' (sometimes merged into ''Anser'')
*Genus '''''[[Branta]]''''' - '''black geese'''
'''Unresolved'''
*Genus '''''[[Coscoroba]]''''' - '''Coscoroba Swan'''
The following two genera are distinct from other geese and often elevated to a subfamily of its own ('''Cereopsinae'''), or alternatively into the [[shelduck]] subfamily Tadorninae:
Tribe '''Cereopsini'''
*Genus '''''[[Cereopsis]]''''' - '''Cape Barren Goose'''
*Genus '''''[[New Zealand Geese|Cnemiornis]]''''' - '''New Zealand geese''' ([[Late Quaternary prehistoric birds|prehistoric]])
There are some enigmatic [[subfossil]]s of very large goose-like birds from the [[Hawaiian Islands]] which do not appear to be [[moa-nalo]]s (goose-sized [[dabbling duck]]s). They cannot be assigned to any genus living today, though most if not all may be fairly close to ''Branta'':
* [[Wetmore's Goose]], ''Geochen rhuax'' - initially alied with ''Cereopsis'', but this seems hardly correct for reasons of [[biogeography]].<!-- Condor45:146 -->
* [[Giant Hawaiʻi Goose]], ?''Branta'' sp.
* Giant Oʻahu Goose, Anatidae sp. et gen. indet.
==References==
* '''Terres''', John K. & '''[[National Audubon Society]]''' (1991): ''The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds''. Wings Books, New York. ISBN 0-517-03288-0
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