Species profile
Atitlan Grebe
Podilymbus gigas
Quick answer
Formerly Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Extinct. Last reported 1986
- Scientific name
- Podilymbus gigas
- Family
- Podicipedidae
- Order
- Podicipediformes
- Genus
- Podilymbus
- Conservation status
- Extinct
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Related species in Podicipedidae
- Aechmophorus elasson (Aechmophorus elasson)
- Aechmophorus lucasi (Aechmophorus lucasi)
- Alaotra Grebe (Tachybaptus rufolavatus)
- Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae)
- Clark's Grebe (Aechmophorus clarkii)
- Colombian Grebe (Podiceps andinus)
- Colymbus oligocaenus (Colymbus oligocaenus)
- Colymbus parvus (Colymbus parvus)