Editing Lesser white-fronted goose (section)

== Taxonomy ==
The lesser white-fronted goose 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]] ''Anas erythropus''.<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=123 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727028 }}</ref><ref name=mayr>{{ 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 | page=438 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16109078 }}</ref> Linnaeus specified the [[type location (biology)|type location]] as northern Europe but this was restricted to northern Sweden in 1913.<ref name=mayr/><ref>{{ cite journal | last=Lönnberg | first=Einar | author-link=Einar Lönnberg | date=1913 | title=On the Linnaen names ''Strix funerca'' and ''Anser erythropus'' and on the species which should be referred to them | journal=Ibis | series=10th series | volume=1 | issue=3 | pages=398–402 [401] | doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1913.tb06560.x | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26514641 }}</ref> The lesser white-fronted goose is now one of 11 species placed in the genus ''[[Anser (bird)|Anser]]'' that was introduced by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] in 1760.<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=Screamers, ducks, geese & swans | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/waterfowl/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=15 June 2024 }}</ref> The specific epithet comes from ''anser'', the Latin for "goose", and ''erythropus'', "red-footed", derived from the old Greek ''eruthros'' "red" and ''pous'' "foot".<ref name="job90">{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher = Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n48 48], 150}}</ref> The species is [[monotypic]]: no [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc/> The lesser white-fronted goose is closely related to the [[greater white-fronted goose]] (''Anser albifrons'').<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Ottenburghs | first1=J. | last2=Megens | first2=H.-J. | last3=Kraus | first3=R.H.S. | last4=Madsen | first4=O. | last5=van Hooft | first5=P. | last6=van Wieren | first6=S.E. | last7=Crooijmans | first7=R.P.M.A. | last8=Ydenberg | first8=R.C. | last9=Groenen | first9=M.A.M. | last10=Prins | first10=H.H.T. | date=2016 | title=A tree of geese: A phylogenomic perspective on the evolutionary history of True Geese | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution  | volume=101 | pages=303–313 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.021 | pmid=27233434 | bibcode=2016MolPE.101..303O | url=http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-379362 }}</ref>