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Genus of birds

Neotis

Ludwig's bustard (Neotis ludwigii)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Otidiformes
Family:	Otididae
Genus:	Neotis Sharpe, 1893

Neotis is a bird genus in the family Otididae. It contains the following species:

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Neotis heuglinii	Heuglin's bustard	Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia
Neotis ludwigii	Ludwig's bustard	Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa.
Neotis nuba	Nubian bustard	Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan.
Neotis denhami	Denham's bustard	Sub-Saharan Africa

References

Genera of cuckoos, bustards, turacos and their extinct allies

†Veflintornis
Corythaeolinae	Corythaeola
Criniferinae	Crinifer
Musophaginae	Gallirex Menelikornis Tauraco

Otididae	Afrotis Ardeotis Chlamydotis Eupodotis †Gryzaja Houbaropsis †Ioriotis Lissotis Lophotis †Miootis Neotis Otis †Pleotis Sypheotides Tetrax

incertae sedis

Rhinortha
Phaenicophaeini	Ceuthmochares Clamator Coccycua Coccyzus Dasylophus Phaenicophaeus Piaya Rhamphococcyx Taccocua Zanclostomus
Cuculini	Cacomantis Cercococcyx Chrysococcyx Cuculus Eudynamys Hierococcyx Microdynamis †Nannococcyx Pachycoccyx Scythrops Surniculus Urodynamis

Taxon identifiers
Neotis	Wikidata: Q595970 Wikispecies: Neotis ADW: Neotis CoL: 63FF6 EoL: 45513863 GBIF: 2474871 iNaturalist: 84 IRMNG: 1319903 ITIS: 176421 NCBI: 156155 Open Tree of Life: 607264 Paleobiology Database: 414685

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