Scientific classification

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Scientific classification

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BLACK STORK (BS)

Scientific classification
- class: Aves (birds)
- order: Ciconiiformes (wading birds)
- family: Ciconiidae (6 families/groups)
- genus: Ciconia (8 genera/groups)
- species: Ciconia nigra

- In Europe they are white storks (Ciconia ciconia) and black storks (Ciconia nigra), they are different (!) species

- The black stork was long thought to be most closely related to the white stork (C. ciconia). However, genetic analysis via DNA–DNA hybridization and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA by Beth Slikas in 1997 found that it was basal (an early offshoot) in the genus Ciconia.

- To the European white stork (C. ciconia) is closely related and resembles the oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana), of which it was formerly often treated as a subspecies (current classification: species Ciconia ciconia - subspecies Ciconia ciconia ciconia/the european white stork and Ciconia ciconia asiatica)

Slikas, Beth (1997). "Phylogeny of the Avian Family Ciconiidae (Storks) Based on CytochromebSequences and DNA–DNA Hybridization Distances". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 8 (3): 275–300. doi:10.1006/mpev.1997.0431. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 9417889.
Liu, Mengyao; Kang, Chunlan; Yan, Chaochao; Huang, Ting; Song, Xuhao; Zhang, Xiuyue; Yue, Bisong; Zeng, Tao (2 January 2016). "Phylogenetic analysis of the Black Stork Ciconia nigra (Ciconiiformes: Ciconiidae) based on complete mitochondrial genome". Mitochondrial DNA. 27 (1): 261–262.
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Black Stork - Hebrew: חסידה שחורה
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