Antigone (bird)

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Grus antigone - 01.jpg

| image_caption = Sarus crane (Antigone antigone)

| taxon = Antigone

| authority = Reichenbach, 1853

| type_species = Grus torquata{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=45 |title= Gruidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-27}} = Ardea antigone

| type_species_authority = Vieillot, 1817

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Antigone is a genus of large birds in the crane family.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flufftails/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=26 June 2019 }} 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 (known then by its Latin name Grus major Indica) because he confused the Greek princess Antigone of Troy, who turned into a stork, with Gerana, the pygmy queen, who turned into a crane.{{Cite book |last=Jobling |first=James A. |year=2010 |title=Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names |location=London, UK |publisher=Christopher Helm |isbn=978-1-4081-3326-2 |pages=49–50 |oclc=659731768 }}

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the genus Grus was polyphyletic.{{ cite journal | last1=Krajewski | first1=C. | last2=Sipiorski | first2=J.T. | last3=Anderson | first3=F.E. | year=2010 | title=Mitochondrial genome sequences and the phylogeny of cranes (Gruiformes: Gruidae) | journal=Auk | volume=127 | issue=2 | pages=440–452 | doi=10.1525/auk.2009.09045 | s2cid=85412892 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277486138 | doi-access=free }} In the subsequent rearrangement four species were placed in the resurrected genus Antigone. The genus had initially been erected in 1853 by German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.{{ cite book | last=Reichenbach | first=Ludwig | author-link=Ludwig Reichenbach | year=1853 | title=Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie | publisher=Friedrich Hofmeister | language=German | place=Leipzig | page=xxiii | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47618653 }} The type species is the sarus crane (Antigone antigone).{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor-last2=Remsen | editor-first2=J.V. Jr. | editor2-link=James Van Remsen, Jr. | year=2013 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume= 1: Non-passerines | edition=4th | place=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-0-8 | page=164}}

= Species =

The genus includes four species:

{{Species table |genus=Antigone |authority-name= Reichenbach |authority-year= 1853 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

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|name= Sandhill crane|binomial=Antigone canadensis

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|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year= 1758 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= North America and extreme northeastern Siberia

|range-image=File:Antigone canadensis map.svg

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| 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)

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|name= White-naped crane|binomial=Antigone vipio

|image=File:White-naped Crane at Saijyo Ehime2.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Pallas |authority-year= 1811 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Northeastern Mongolia, Northeastern China, and adjacent areas of Southeastern Russia

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|name= Sarus crane|binomial=Antigone antigone

|image=File:Sarus crane (Grus antigone).jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year= 1758 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia

|range-image=File:SarusMap.svg

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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on

| 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)

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|name= Brolga|binomial=Antigone rubicunda

|image=File:Brolga (35984742503).jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Perry |authority-year=1810 |authority-not-original=yes

|range=Northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea

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References

External links

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach