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Podicipediformes

AphiaID

2685 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2685)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Aves

Direct children (1)

Ordering

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By status

Children Display

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Family Podicipedidae Bonaparte, 1831

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Podicipediformes. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2685 on 2025-10-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

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Licensing

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Nomenclature

basis of record Harrison, P. (1985). Seabirds: an identification guide. Revised edition. Christopher Helm Publisher. A & C Black: London, UK. ISBN 0-7136-3510-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	カイツブリ目	[details]
Swedish	doppingfåglar	[details]
Ukrainian	Пірникозоподібні	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Podicipediformes)
To Genbank
To ITIS

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