Otis (bird)

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Genus of bustard

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::summary Genus of bustard ::

| fossil_range = Miocene - Recent | image = Drofa (1).jpg | image_caption = Great bustard (Otis tarda) | taxon = Otis | authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision =

Several extinct species are known, including the recently described Otis hellenica from the Turolian of Greece. At 19 kg, it was larger than its extant relative.

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae; it came from the Greek name ὠτίς ōtis 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.

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.

References

References

  1. (2023). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". International Ornithologists' Union.
  2. (2013). "Otis hellenica sp. nov., a new Turolian bustard (Aves: Otididae) from Kryopigi (Chalkidiki, Greece)". Geologica Balcanica.
  3. Linnaeus, Carl. (1758). "Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis". Laurentii Salvii.
  4. Jobling, James A.. (2010). "Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names". [[Christopher Helm]].
  5. (1940). "ὠτίς"ti/s). Perseus Digital Library.
  6. Belon, Pierre. (1555). "L'histoire de la natvre des oyseavx : avec levrs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du natvrel, escrite en sept livres". Gilles Corrozet.
  7. Aldrovandi, Ulisse. (1637). "Vlyssis Aldrovandi philosophi ac medici Bononiensis historiam naturalem in gymnasio Bononiensi profitentis, Ornithologiae". Apud Nicolaum Tebaldinum.
  8. Gray, George Robert. (1840). "A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus". R. and J.E. Taylor.

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