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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Anseriformes

WoRMS 2681ITIS 174982key itis:174982
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2026-08-05: worms_id 2681 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Paakniwatavis grandei

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Anseriformes
Photo · Austin 0201 · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises 178 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae, Anseranatidae, and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes the other 174 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.W CalCOFI holds 150 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 3 taxa under it.R

150
observations
150
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
3
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174982")