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Antigone canadensis (Sandhill crane)

Reptilia - Gruiformes - Gruidae

Taxonomy
Ardea canadensis was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Megalornis canadensis by Wetmore (1928); it was recombined as Grus canadensis by Hay (1930), Wetmore and Martin (1930), Wetmore (1931), Schultz and Howard (1935), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Fisher (1952), Wetmore (1956), Parmalee (1958), Emslie (1992) and Broughton (2004); it was recombined as Antigone canadensis by del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).

Subspecies

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Ardea canadensis Linnaeus
1928Megalornis canadensis Wetmore p. 3
1930Grus canadensis Hay p. 332
1930Grus canadensis Wetmore and Martin p. 63
1931Grus canadensis Wetmore p. 36
1935Grus canadensis Schultz and Howard p. 277
1940Grus canadensis Wetmore p. 50
1942Grus canadensis Miller and DeMay p. 109
1952Grus canadensis Fisher p. 205
1956Grus canadensis Wetmore p. 60
1958Grus canadensis Parmalee p. 172
1992Grus canadensis Emslie p. 263
2004Grus canadensis Broughton p. 25
2014Antigone canadensis del Hoyo et al.
2017Antigone canadensis Clements et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria()
Maniraptora
Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
NeoavesSibley et al. 1988
Terrestrornithes
Telmatorae
superorderCharadriimorphaeHuxley 1867
orderGruiformesBonaparte 1854
familyGruidaeVigors 1825
genusAntigoneReichenbach 1853
speciescanadensis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Antigone canadensis Linnaeus 1758 [Sandhill crane]
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Antigone canadensis pratensis Meyer 1794 [sandhill crane]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available