Antigone (bird)
| Antigone | |
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| Sarus crane (Antigone antigone) | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Gruidae |
| Genus: | Antigone Reichenbach, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Grus torquata[1] = Ardea antigone Vieillot, 1817
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Antigone is a genus of large birds in the crane family.[2] The species in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Grus.
Taxonomy
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus to be used for the sarus crane or its old name Grus major Indica because he was confused between Greek princesses Antigone of Troy who turned into a stork and Gerana who turned into the crane.[3] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the genus Grus was polyphyletic.[4] In the subsequent rearrangement, four species were placed in the resurrected genus Antigone.[2] The genus had initially been erected in 1853 by German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[5] The type species is the sarus crane (Antigone antigone).[6]
Species
The genus includes four species:[2]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Sandhill crane
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Antigone canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Five subspecies
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North America and extreme northeastern Siberia Map of range |
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| White-naped crane | Antigone vipio (Pallas, 1811) |
Northeastern Mongolia, Northeastern China, and adjacent areas of Southeastern Russia Map of range |
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| Sarus crane | Antigone antigone (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia Map of range |
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| Brolga | Antigone rubicunda (Perry, 1810) |
Northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea Map of range |
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References
- ↑ "Gruidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-1-4081-3326-2. OCLC 659731768.
- ↑ Krajewski, C.; Sipiorski, J.T.; Anderson, F.E. (2010). "Mitochondrial genome sequences and the phylogeny of cranes (Gruiformes: Gruidae)". Auk. 127 (2): 440–452. doi:10.1525/auk.2009.09045. S2CID 85412892.
- ↑ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. p. xxiii.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
External links
- File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Antigone at Wikimedia Commons
- File:Wikispecies-logo.svg Data related to Antigone at Wikispecies
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