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Leptoptilos

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Description

Leptoptilos is a genus of very large tropical storks, also known as the adjutant bird. The name means thin (lepto) feather (ptilos). Two species are resident breeders in southern Asia, and the marabou stork is found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptoptilos, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2481944	https://www.gbif.org/species/2481944
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	105607	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=105607

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Ciconiiformes : Ciconiidae : Leptoptilos

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
-	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
-	Pygostylia	Chiappe 2002
-	Ornithothoraces	Chiappe and Calvo 1994
-	Ornithuromorpha	Chiappe et al. 1999
subclass	Ornithurae	Haeckel 1866
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
-	Neognathae
-	Neoaves	Sibley et al. 1988
-	Natatores	Baird 1858
-	Steganograllatores	Livezey and Zusi 2007
superorder	Ciconiimorphae
order	Ciconiiformes	Bonaparte 1854
family	Ciconiidae	Sundevall 1836
tribe	Leptoptilini	Mayr and Cottrell 1979
genus	Leptoptilos	Lesson 1831

Scientific Name

Leptoptilos Lesson, 1831

Name Published In

Traité Ornith., (8

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Leptoptilos	genus	belongs to Aves	stated with evidence	Lesson, 1831
Leptoptilos	genus	belongs to Ciconiidae	stated without evidence	Lambrecht, 1933
Leptoptilos	genus	belongs to Leptoptilini	stated with evidence	Kahl, 1972
Leptoptilos	genus	belongs to Ciconiidae	stated without evidence	Louchart et al., 2008
Leptoptilos	genus	belongs to Leptoptilini	stated with evidence	Meijer and Awe Due, 2010
Leptoptilos	genus	belongs to Ciconiidae	stated without evidence	Meijer et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (36%)

First Recorded Appearance

16.9 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. P. Lesson. 1831. Traité d'ornithologie, ou Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux. Traité d'ornithologie, ou Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptoptilos

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Argala arvernensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptoptilos crumenifer species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Marabou			0 Ma Extant
Leptoptilos crumeniferus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptoptilos dubius species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Greater Adjutant	1	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Leptoptilos falconeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Leptoptilos javanicus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Lesser Adjutant			0 Ma Extant
Leptoptilos patagonicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Leptoptilos pliocenicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Leptoptilos robustus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Leptoptilos siwalicensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Leptoptilos titan ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Leptoptilus arvernensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Leptoptilus Strickland, 1841	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Ciconiiformes : Ciconiidae : *Leptoptilus*
Leptoptilus Lesson, 1831	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Ciconiiformes : Ciconiidae : *Leptoptilus*
Leptoptila Gloger, 1842	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Ciconiiformes : Ciconiidae : *Leptoptila*
Leptophilos Jardine, 1850	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Ciconiiformes : Ciconiidae : *Leptophilos*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1831	Leptoptilos Lesson
1933	Leptoptilus Lambrecht p. 326
1964	Leptoptilos Brodkorb p. 204
1972	Leptoptilos Kahl p. 10
2008	Leptoptilos Louchart et al. p. 157
2010	Leptoptilos Meijer and Awe Due p. 714
2013	Leptoptilos Meijer et al. p. 879
2017	Leptoptilos Clements et al.

References

Lesson R. P. Traité d'ornithologie, ou Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux, Traité d'ornithologie, ou Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux, 1-659

Lambrecht K. (1933) Handbuch der Palaeornithologie, 1-1024

Brodkorb P. (1964) Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 2 (Anseriformes through Galliformes), Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 8 3, 195-335

Louchart A., Haile-Selassie Y., et al (2008) Fossil birds from the Late Miocene of Chad and Ethiopia and zooge- ographical implications, Oryctos 7, 147-167

Meijer H. J. M., Awe Due R. (2010) A new species of giant marabou stork (Aves: Ciconiiformes) from the Pleistocene of Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 4, 707-724

Meijer H. J. M., Sutikna T., et al (2013) Late Pleistocene-Holocene non-passerine avifauna of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33, 877-894

Clements J. F., Schulenberg T. S., et al (2017) , The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Traité Ornith., (8 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Monroe Jr. & Sibley, 1993 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Moriearty,P. L.,Pomeroy,D. E.,Wanjala,B. (1972) Parasites of the marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus (Lesson)) in Queen Elizabeth National Park*, Uganda - via Phthiraptera.info

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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