African Hawk-Eagle
African Hawk-Eagle
Here the details of the African Hawk-Eagle named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Spizaëtus spilogaster Rev.Mag.Zool. (2), 2 p.487
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Aquila
Taxonomy Code: afrhae1
Type Locality: Ethiopia.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
AQUILA
(Accipitridae; † Golden Eagle A. chrysaetos) L. aquila eagle ?< aquilus dark-coloured; the Golden Eagle was the emblem of the Roman legions, whose standards or eagles bore the likeness of an eagle with raised wings; "Aquila. Genus 9. ... Genus Aquilinum ... Digiti quatuor, membranis destituti; tres scilicet antici, posticus unus; omnes circiter usque ad exortum discreti: Crura ad calcaneum usque plumosa: Rostrum breve, primum rectum, dein aduncum; ad basin cute nuda tectum: Caput plumosum. ... **1. L'AIGLE ... AQUILA." (Brisson 1760): based on "Aquila" of many previous authors; "Aquila Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 28, 419. Type, by tautonymy, Aquila Brisson = Falco chrysaëtos Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 253).
Var. Aquilla, Aquilo.
Synon. Aetos, Aetus, Afraetus, Cassinaetus, Chrysaetus, Euaquila, Micraetus, Morphnaetos, Psammoaetus, Pteroaetus, Taphaetus, Uroaetus.
aquila
L. aquila eagle ?< aquilus dark-coloured.
● "XIII. AIGLE COMMUN. FALCO AQUILA. ... Aquila Valeria. ARISTOTE, Hist. anim. Falco fulvus. LINNÉ, Syst. nat. Chrysaëtos, cauda albo cincta. RAY, Syn. ... En Tartarie on leur apprend à chasser les lièvres, les renards et même les loups" (Daudin 1800) (syn. Aquila chrysaetos).
● "66. PELECANUS. ... Aquilus. 2. P. cauda forficata, corpore nigro, capite abdomineque albis. Amœn. acad. 4. p. . . Pelecanus Aquilus. Osb. iter. 292. Alcyon major pulla, cauda pulla, cauda longiore bifurca. Brown jam. 483. Cari pira Laët. amer. 575. Man of var.[sic] Sloan. jam. I. p. 30. Avis Rabo focardo. Pet. gaz. t. 45. f. 1.? Frigate bird. Alb. av. 3. p. 75. t. 80. male. Habitat in Insula Adscensionis aliisque pelagicis, vitam agens Diomedeæ exulis, cui similis." (Linnaeus 1758); from the very sharp, eagle-like bill of the Ascension Frigatebird (Fregata).
spilogaster / spilogastra
Gr. σπιλος spilos spot; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros belly.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)