Otis (bird)
Template:Short description Template:Automatic taxobox 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 Script error: No such module "convert"., 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 Script error: No such module "Lang". 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]
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