Podilymbus

Podilymbus Temporal range: Late Pliocene to present
Pied-billed grebe
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Podicipediformes
Family:	Podicipedidae
Tribe:	Podilymbini
Genus:	Podilymbus Lesson, 1831
Species
†Podilymbus majusculus †Podilymbus wetmorei †Podilymbus gigas Podilymbus podiceps

Podilymbus is a genus of birds in the Grebe family, the genus name is derived from Latin Podilymbus, a contraction of podicipes ("feet at the buttocks", from podici-, "rump-" + pes, "foot")—the origin of the name of the grebe order—and Ancient Greek kolymbos, "diver".[1]

Species

The genus contains two recent species :

Genus Podilymbus – Lesson, 1831 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Pied-billed grebe	Podilymbus podiceps[2] (Linnaeus, 1758) Three subspecies P. p. podiceps, (Linnaeus, 1758) P. p. antarcticus, (Lesson, 1842) P. p. antillarum, (Bangs, 1913)	North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
† Atitlán grebe	Podilymbus gigas Griscom, 1929	Guatemala; declared extinct in 1990	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EX

There are also several prehistoric taxa of Podilymbus described from fossil remains:

• Podilymbus majusculus (Late Pliocene of Idaho)
• Podilymbus wetmorei (Late Pleistocene of Florida)
• Podilymbus podiceps magnus - a paleosubspecies of the pied-billed grebe of uncertain validity.

References

1. Cabard P. and Chauvet B. (2003). Etymologie des noms d'oiseaux Belin Eveil éditeur, France ISBN 2-7011-3783-7
2. "Podilymbus Lesson, 1831". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 2, 2011.