Biology:Otis (bird)
| Otis Temporal range: Miocene - Recent
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| Great bustard (Otis tarda) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Otidiformes |
| Family: | Otididae |
| Genus: | Otis Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Otis is a genus of bustard containing a single living species, the great bustard (Otis tarda).[1]
Several extinct species are known, including the recently described Otis hellenica from the Turolian of Greece. At 19 kg (42 lb), it was larger than its extant relative.[2]
Taxonomy
The genus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae;[3] it came from the Greek name ὠτίς ōtis[4][5] taken from Natural History by Pliny the Elder published around 77 AD which briefly mentions a bird like it. These names were further mentioned by Pierre Belon in 1555 and Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1600.[6][7]
Linnaeus placed four species in the genus, but the type species was designated as the great bustard (Otis tarda) by George Robert Gray in 1840.[8]
References
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (2023). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/turacos/.
- ↑ Boev, Z.N. (2013). "Otis hellenica sp. nov., a new Turolian bustard (Aves: Otididae) from Kryopigi (Chalkidiki, Greece)". Geologica Balcanica 42 (1–3): 59–65. doi:10.52321/GeolBalc.42.1-3.59. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269696024.
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl (1758) (in Latin). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 154. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727061.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010) (in en). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. pp. 286. ISBN 978-1-4081-3326-2. OCLC 659731768.
- ↑ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940). "ὠτίς". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Digital Library. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=w)ti/s.
- ↑ Belon, Pierre (1555) (in French). L'histoire de la natvre des oyseavx : avec levrs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du natvrel, escrite en sept livres. Paris: Gilles Corrozet. pp. 235–237. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43989802.
- ↑ Aldrovandi, Ulisse (1637) [1600] (in Latin). Vlyssis Aldrovandi philosophi ac medici Bononiensis historiam naturalem in gymnasio Bononiensi profitentis, Ornithologiae. 2. Bononiae (Bologna, Italy): Apud Nicolaum Tebaldinum. pp. 85. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53874775.
- ↑ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 64. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668981.
Wikidata ☰ Q4288490 entry
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