Pallas’s Fish-Eagle

Pallas\'s Fish-Eagle / Haliaeetus leucoryphus

Pallas's Fish-Eagle

Here the details of the Pallas's Fish-Eagle named bird below:

SCI Name:  Haliaeetus leucoryphus
Protonym:  Aquila leucorypha ReiseVersch.Provin.Russ.Reichs 1 p.454
Taxonomy:  Accipitriformes / Accipitridae /
Taxonomy Code:  pafeag1
Type Locality:  lower Ural River.
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Publish Year:  1771
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DEFINITIONS

HALIAEETUS
(Accipitridae; Ϯ White-tailed Eagle H. albicilla) L. haliaetus or haliaetos  sea-eagle, osprey  < Gr. ἁλιαιετος haliaietos  sea-eagle, osprey  < ἁλι- hali-  sea-  < ἁλς hals, ἁλος halos  sea; αετος aetos  eagle; "6. HALIÆETUS. Bec assez droit à la base; cire convexe; narines lunulées, transverses; tarses épais, écailleux: ongles intérieur et postérieur grands.  ...  GENRE VI, HALIÆETUS.  ...  ESPÈCE.  9. HALIÆETUS Nisus.  L'Aigle de mer." (de Savigny 1809): based on Aλιαιετος, Nisus, and Haliæetos of ancient authors, "Pygargus" and "Albicilla" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and Vultur Albicilla Linnaeus, 1766; "Haliæetus Savigny, Descr. Égypte, Ois., 1809, p. 68, 85. Type, by monotypy, Haliæetus nisus Savigny = Falco albicilla Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 257). 
Var. HaliaeatusHaliaetos, Haliaetus, HaliacetusHalaeetus, Halioetus, Halyaetus, Heliaeetus
Synon. Blagrus, Cuncuma, Ossifraga, Pontoaetus, Thalasoaetus.

leucorypha / leucoryphus
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; -κορυφος -koruphos  -crowned  < κορυφη koruphē  crown.