Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Galloanserae > Superorder Anserimorphae > Order Anseriformes > Suborder Anseri > Superfamily Anatoidea > Family Anatidae

Anas Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Anas acuta Linnaeus, 1758
Anas americana Gmelin, 1789
Anas carolinensis Gmelin, 1789
Anas crecca Linnaeus, 1758
Anas cyanoptera Vieillot, 1816
Anas falcata Georgi, 1775
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758
Anas rubripes Brewster, 1902
Anas strepera Linnaeus, 1758

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Japanese: マガモ属

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
basis of record	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.
additional source	Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.