Antigone (bird)

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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
Species

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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 .

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Taxonomy

The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus to be used for the sarus crane (known then by its Latin name Grus major Indica) because he confused the Greek princess Antigone of Troy, who turned into a stork, with Gerana, the pygmy queen, who turned into a 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]

Genus Antigone – Reichenbach, 1853 – four species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Sandhill crane

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Antigone canadensis
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Five subspecies
  • A. c. canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) – northeast Siberia through Alaska and north Canada to Baffin Island
  • A. c. tabida (Peters, JL, 1925) – south Canada and west, central United States
  • A. c. pratensis (Meyer, FAA, 1794) – Georgia and Florida
  • A. c. pulla (Aldrich, 1972) – Mississippi
  • A. c. nesiotes (Bangs & Zappey, 1905) – Cuba and Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Pines)
North America and extreme northeastern Siberia
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Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 



White-naped crane

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Antigone vipio
(Pallas, 1811)		Northeastern Mongolia, Northeastern China, and adjacent areas of Southeastern Russia
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Habitat:

Diet:		  VU 


Sarus crane

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Antigone antigone
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Four subspecies
  • A. a. antigone(Linnaeus, 1758) (Indian sarus crane)
  • A. a. sharpiiBlanford, 1895 (Indochinese or Burmese sarus crane, Sharpe's crane, red-headed crane)
  • A. a. gilliaeSchodde, 1988 (Australian sarus crane)
  • A. a. luzonica Hachisuka, 1941 (Philippine sarus crane – extinct)
Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia
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Habitat:

Diet:		  VU 


Brolga

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Antigone rubicunda
(Perry, 1810)		Northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea
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Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 


References

  1. ↑ "Gruidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  2. 1 2 3 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. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. p. xxiii.
  6. ↑ 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.


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