Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Anatidae

swans, geese & ducks

WoRMS 136973ITIS 174983key itis:174983

2026-08-05: worms_id 136973 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Gabriela Palomo-Munoz · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Dendrocygna autumnalis

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 Anatidae — Photo · Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica.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 · 2 taxa

G Melanitta122
G Branta28

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174983")

Anatidae

Observed in

Under it · 2 taxa

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

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