Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Procellariiformes - (Family) Diomedeidae

Original position

Anseres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent entries

Diomedea (Subgenus) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Diomedeidae (Family) Gray, 1840

Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 72.

Alternative positions

Anseres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 214.
Diomedeinae (Subfamily)	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 137.

Historical positions

Diomedeidae (Family) Gray, 1840	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 72.
Diomedeinae (Subfamily)	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 137.
Diomedeidae (Family) Gray, 1840	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 367.
Diomedeidae (Family) Gray, 1840	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 971.
Diomedeidae (Family) Gray, 1840	Ref: C. Jouanin & J.-L. Mougin, 1979: 48-51.
Diomedeidae (Family) Gray, 1840	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Diomedeidae (Family) Gray, 1840	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1968): 571.
Diomedeidae (Family) Gray, 1840	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1963: 241.
Anseres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 118, 214.
Anseres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 84, 132. [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2s;7ss; †2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 5 May 2015	[2s;7ss]
2003	E.C. Dickinson: 72	[2s;7ss]
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	[12s]
1991 (1990)	C.M. Perrins	[12s]
1979	C. Jouanin & J.-L. Mougin	[11s;11ss]
1758	C. Linnaeus	[2s]