Chloephaga is a genus of sheldgeese in the family Anatidae.

Other sheldgeese are found in the genera Alopochen and Neochen.

The genus Chloephaga was introduced in 1838 by the English naturalist Thomas Campbell Eyton in his A Monograph on the Anatidae, or Duck Tribe.

[2] He designated the type species as Chloephaga magellanica.

[6][7][8] A fossilized partial coracoid (CTES-PZ 7797) of an indeterminate Chloephaga species sharing some characters with the extant upland goose is known from the upper Pleistocene Toropí Formation (also called the Yupoí Formation) in Corrientes Province, Argentina, 700 kilometers further north than the northernmost present-day record of the genus.