Grus (genus)

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Grus
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Common crane (Grus grus)
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Gruidae
Genus: Grus
Brisson, 1760
Type species
Ardea grus
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • Bugeranus
  • Anthropoides

Grus is a genus of large birds in the crane family.

Contents

The genus Grus was erected by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. [1] The name Grus is the Latin word for "crane". [2] The German ornithologist Peter Simon Pallas was sometimes credited with erecting the genus in 1766 [3] but the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 1956 that Brisson should have priority. [4]

The genus formerly included additional species. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the genus Grus, as then defined, was polyphyletic. [5] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the sandhill crane, the white-naped crane, the sarus crane and the brolga were moved to the resurrected genus Antigone that had been erected by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1853. [6] [7] The Siberian crane was moved to the resurrected monotypic genus Leucogeranus. [6]

Species

The genus contains eight species: [6]

Genus Grus Brisson, 1760 – 8 species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Wattled crane

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G. carunculata [lower-alpha 1]
(Gmelin, J. F., 1789)
Southern and eastern Africa
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 VU 


6,000–6,300 Decrease2.svg [9]

Blue crane

Blue Cranes (Anthropoides paradiseus) couple (32611134625).jpg

G. paradisea [lower-alpha 2]
(Lichtenstein, A. A. H., 1793)
Southern Africa
Blue crane IUCN distribution range.svg
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Habitat:

Diet:
 VU 


17,000–30,000 Decrease2.svg [11]

Demoiselle crane

Demoiselle Cranes at Tal Chappar.jpg

G. virgo [lower-alpha 3]
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Asia and northwestern Africa
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 LC 


230,000–261,000 Increase2.svg [12]

Red-crowned crane

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G. japonensis
(Müller, P. L. S., 1776)
East Asia and Siberia
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Diet:
 VU 


2,000–2,650 Decrease2.svg [13]

Whooping crane

Grus americana Sasata.jpg

G. americana
(Linnaeus, 1758)
North America
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 EN 


50–249 Increase2.svg [14]

Common crane

Common crane grus grus.jpg

G. grus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Afro-Eurasia
Common Crane Range.svg
Size:

Habitat:

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 LC 


491,000–503,000 Increase2.svg [15]

Hooded crane

Grus monacha at Nakagawa town,Tokushima.jpg

G. monacha
Temminck, 1835

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Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
 VU 


6,000–15,000 Increase2.svg [16]

Black-necked crane

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G. nigricollis
Przevalski, 1876
India and China
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 NT 


6,600–6,800 Steady2.svg [17]

The HBW/BirdLife and Clements checklists place the demoiselle crane and blue crane in the genus Anthropoides, and the wattled crane in the monospecific genus Bugeranus, leaving only the red-crowned, whooping, common, hooded, and black-necked cranes in the genus Grus. [18] [19] [20] [21]

The Cuban flightless crane, Grus cubensis , became extinct in the Pleistocene. [22]

Fossil record

The fossil record of the genus stretches back some 12 million years or so. A considerable number of prehistoric species are known, with the oldest, Grus miocaenicus (Middle Miocene of Credinţa, Romania) perhaps not a crane but a junior synonym of the swimming-flamingo Palaelodus ambiguus ; ("Grus" problematica certainly is). The Late Pleistocene Mediterranean Grus primigenia was hunted by Stone Age humans.

Several other fossil gruiforms are now considered not to belong here. "Grus" prentici is now in Paragrus , "Grus" princeps, "Grus" excelsa and "Grus" hordwellianus are placed in Palaeogrus , and "Grus" excelsa in Balearica . "Grus" marshi belongs in Aletornis .

More uncertain is the position of Probalearica (variously considered Late Oligocene to Middle Pliocene but probably Late Miocene) from Golboçica (Moldavia) and maybe elsewhere. It is usually regarded a nomen dubium but might belong into Grus. "Grus" conferta (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Contra Costa County, USA) is apparently too different from the modern genus to be placed herein, but its affiliations are not well resolved.

Notes

  1. The wattled crane is placed in the genus Bugeranus by the IUCN and Clements Checklist. [8]
  2. The blue crane is placed in the genus Anthropoides by the IUCN and Clements Checklist. [10] [8]
  3. The Demoiselle crane is placed in the genus Anthropoides by the IUCN and Clements Checklist. [10] [8]

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