Otis tarda Linnaeus 1758 (great bustard)

Aves - Otidiformes - Otididae

Synonym: Otis brevipes Gibel 1847

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Belongs to Otis according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017

See also Bedetti and Pavia 2013, Lambrecht 1933, Linnaeus 1758, Mlikovsky 2002 and Zelenkov et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Otis affinis, Otis agilis, Otis bessarabensis, Otis lambrechti, Otis paratetrax

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Hungary (1), Italy (2), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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