Editing Horned grebe (section)

==Taxonomy==
The horned grebe was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Colymbus auritus''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=135 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727040 }}</ref> Linnaeus specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as Europe and America but this has been restricted to [[Vaasa]] in Finland.<ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1979 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 1 | edition=2nd | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=149–150 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16108789 }}</ref> The horned grebe is now one of the nine species placed in the genus ''[[Podiceps]]'' that was introduced in 1787 by the English naturalist [[John Latham (ornithologist)|John Latham]].<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Grebes, flamingos | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/grebes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=19 July 2024 }}</ref> The genus name combines the [[Latin]] ''podex'' meaning "vent" and ''pes'' meaning "foot". The specific epithet ''auritus'' is Latin meaning "-eared" or "long-eared", and the subspecific name ''cornutus'' means "horned".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n311/mode/1up 311], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n62/mode/1up 62]}}</ref>