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Genus of bustard
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. Retrieved 18 February 2023 .
^ 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 .
S2CID
246377339 .
^
Linnaeus, Carl (1758).
Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 154.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London, UK:
Christopher Helm . p. 286.
ISBN
978-1-4081-3326-2 .
OCLC
659731768 .
^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940).
"ὠτίς" . A Greek-English Lexicon . Perseus Digital Library.
^
Belon, Pierre (1555).
L'histoire de la natvre des oyseavx : avec levrs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du natvrel, escrite en sept livres (in French). Paris: Gilles Corrozet. pp. 235–237.
^
Aldrovandi, Ulisse (1637) [1600].
Vlyssis Aldrovandi philosophi ac medici Bononiensis historiam naturalem in gymnasio Bononiensi profitentis, Ornithologiae (in Latin). Vol. 2. Bononiae (Bologna, Italy): Apud Nicolaum Tebaldinum. p. 85.
^
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.