Antigone (bird)

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Antigone
Grus antigone - 01.jpg
Sarus crane, Antigone antigone
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Gruidae
Genus: Antigone
Reichenbach, 1853
Type species
Ardea antigone
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Antigone is a genus of large birds in the crane family. The species in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Grus.

Taxonomy[]

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the genus Grus was polyphyletic.[1] 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.[3] The type species is the sarus crane (Antigone antigone).[4]

Species[]

The genus includes four species:[2]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
2012 Photo Contest - Wildlife Category (7944840384).jpg Antigone canadensis Sandhill crane North America and extreme northeastern Siberia
White-naped Crane at Saijyo Ehime2.jpg Antigone vipio White-naped crane Northeastern Mongolia, Northeastern China, and adjacent areas of Southeastern Russia
Sarus crane (Grus antigone).jpg Antigone antigone Sarus crane Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia
Brolga-1-Healesville,-Vic,-3.1.2008.jpg Antigone rubicunda Brolga South-eastern Australia and New Guinea

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. p. xxiii.
  4. ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V., Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8. |volume= has extra text (help)


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