Antigone
Sarus crane (Antigone antigone)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.

Taxonomy

The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus to be used for the sarus crane or its old name Grus major Indica because he was confused between Greek princesses Antigone who turned into a stork and Gerana who turned into the 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 name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Sandhill crane

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
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



White-naped crane

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

Diet: 		 VU 


Sarus crane

Antigone antigone
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Four subspecies
  • A. a. antigone (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indian sarus crane)
  • A. a. sharpii Blanford, 1895 (Indochinese or Burmese sarus crane, Sharpe's crane, red-headed crane)
  • A. a. gilliae Schodde, 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

Antigone rubicunda
(Perry, 1810) 		Northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



References

  1. ^ "Gruidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  2. ^ a b c 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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