Lesser Spotted Eagle
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Lesser Spotted Eagle
Here the details of the Lesser Spotted Eagle named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Aquila Pomarina Handb.Naturgesch.Vog.Deutschl. p.27
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Clanga
Taxonomy Code: leseag1
Type Locality: Pomerania.
Author: Brehm, CL
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CLANGA
(Accipitridae; † Greater Spotted Eagle C. clanga) Gr. κλαγγος klangos eagle (cf. specific name Aquila clanga Pallas, 1811); "Ces observations concernent principalement les mœurs du Vultur fulvus et cinereus, du Pygargus, suivies de la proposition de former un nouveau genre Clanga, subdivisé en trois espèces: Clanga nœvia (Falco maculatus, Gmelini), C. fasciata et C. macrodactyla (v. der Muhle)" (Adamowicz 1858); "Clanga Adamowicz, 1858, Rev. Mag. Zool., sér. 2, IX, p. 604. Type, by tautonymy, Falco maculatus Gmelin, 1788 (not of Tunstall, 1771) = Aquila clanga Pallas, 1811." (per Gregory and Dickinson, 2012, Bull. British Ornith. Club, 132 (2), p. 136).
Synon. Aquiloides.
clanga
Gr. κλαγγος klangos eagle (Clanga).
pomarina
Pomerania, a former dukedom bordering the Baltic Sea, now divided by the Oder between Poland and Germany.
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)
