Anserinae


The Anserinae are a subfamily in the waterfowl family Anatidae and includes the swan and geese. Under alternative systematical concepts, it is split into two subfamilies. The Anserinae contains geese and ducks, while the Cygninae contains the swans.

Systematics

Swans
True geese
Unresolved
These two genera are distinct from other geese and often elevated to a subfamily of their own, or alternatively into the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae:
Tribe Cereopseini
Some enigmatic subfossils of very large goose-like birds from the Hawaiian Islands do not appear to be moa-nalos or B. rhuax. They cannot be assigned to any genus living today, though both may be fairly close to Branta: