Hartlaub's bustard

Hartlaub's bustard
Adult male
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Otidiformes
Family: Otididae
Genus: Lissotis
Species:
L. hartlaubii
Binomial name
Lissotis hartlaubii
(Heuglin, 1863)

Hartlaub's bustard (Lissotis hartlaubii) is a species of bird in the family Otididae. It is a medium-sized bustard with a long, think neck, and long legs. It is found in open, tall grassland, range from 1600 meters to 2000 meters in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub.[3] They initially classified under the genus Eupodotis in 1839,[4] a subsequent genetic study revealed that the genus Lissotis represents a distinct, long-standing lineage, separate from Eupodotis, emerging during the evolutionary diversification of bustards at the generic level.[5]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Lissotis hartlaubii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22692011A93333424. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692011A93333424.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 180–159–160.
  4. ^ "The Taxonomicon & Systema Naturae 2000, Hartlaub's bustard: Lissotis hartlaubii". The Taxonomicon & Systema Naturae 2000. October 14, 2024.
  5. ^ Pitra, Christian; Lieckfeldt, Dietmar; Frahnert, Sylke; Fickel, Joerns (2002-04-01). "Phylogenetic Relationships and Ancestral Areas of the Bustards (Gruiformes: Otididae), Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA and Nuclear Intron Sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 23 (1): 63–74. doi:10.1006/mpev.2001.1078. ISSN 1055-7903.