Grus (genus)
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Grus is a genus of large birds in the crane family.
Grus | |
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Common crane (Grus grus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Gruiformes |
Family: | Gruidae |
Genus: | Grus Brisson, 1760 |
Type species | |
Ardea grus | |
Species | |
see text | |
Synonyms | |
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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]