Verreaux’s Eagle
Verreaux's Eagle
Here the details of the Verreaux's Eagle named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Aquila Verreauxii Cent.Zool. p.105 pl.38
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Aquila
Taxonomy Code: vereag1
Type Locality: Interior of the Cape of Good Hope.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1831
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).
verreauxii / verreauxius / verreauxorum
● Jules Pierre Verreaux (1807-1873) French natural history dealer, collector (subsp. Alcedo meninting, Aquila, Carpodacus, ?syn. Graminicola bengalensis, syn. Hypargos margaritatus, subsp. Tauraco macrorhynchus, subsp. Turdus libonyanus, syn. Vidua paradisaea).
● Jules Pierre Verreaux (1807-1873) and his brothers, Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux (1810-1868) and Joseph Aléxis Verreaux (d. 1868) French natural history dealers (Maison Verreaux in Paris) (subsp. Aviceda cuculoides).
● Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux (1810-1868) and Jules Pierre Verreaux (1807-1873) French natural history dealers (syn. Campylopterus hemileucurus, Trichoglossus x Glossopsittacus hybrid, syn. Verreauxia africana).
● Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux (1810-1868) French natural history dealer, collector (subsp. Celeus grammicus, Lophornis).
● see also veroxii
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)