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Taxon: Species Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758) - great crested grebe (bird)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Podicipediformes - (Family) Podicipedidae

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Gaviiformes (Clade) Wetmore & Miller 1926 [Martyniuk 2012], nom. ined.

Ref: M.P. Martyniuk, 2012: 182.

Current position

Podiceps (Genus) Latham, 1787

Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 80.

Historical positions

*Podiceps* (Genus) Latham, 1787	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 80.
*Podiceps* (Genus) Latham, 1787	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 126.
*Podiceps* (Genus) Latham, 1787	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 367.
*Podiceps* (Genus) Latham, 1787	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1968): 570.

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	3ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 6 May 2015	[3ss]
2003	E.C. Dickinson: 80	[3ss]

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Last updated: 28 Aug 2026