International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
The genus "Grus" was erected by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The name "Grus" is the Latin word for "crane". The German ornithologist Peter Simon Pallas was sometimes credited with erecting the genus in 1766 but the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 1956 that Brisson should have priority.