Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Order Gaviiformes > Family Gaviidae

Gavia J. R. Forster, 1788

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gavia adamsii (Gray, 1859)
Gavia arctica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gavia immer (Brünnich, 1764)
Gavia stellata (Pontoppidan, 1763)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: アビ属

Literature

original description	Forster, J. R. (1788). Enchiridion historiae naturali inserviens, quo termini et delineationes ad avium, piscium, insectorum et plantarum adumbrationes intelligendas et concinnandas, secundum methodum systematis Linnaeani continentur. 224 pp.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp.