White-tailed Hawk
White-tailed Hawk
Here the details of the White-tailed Hawk named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Buteo albicaudatus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 4 p.477
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Geranoaetus
Taxonomy Code: whthaw
Type Locality: South America; restricted to Rio de Janeiro by Berlepsch, 1908, Novit. Zool., 15, p. 291.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1816
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GERANOAETUS
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Grey Buzzard Eagle G. melanoleucus) Gr. γερανος geranos crane (i.e. grey); αετος aetos eagle; "5. Geschlecht. Bussard oder Seeadler, Haliaëtus, Sav. ... 3) Sperberseeadler, Geranoaëtus, Kp. (aguja)." (Kaup 1844); "Geranoaetus Kaup, Class. Säugeth. und Vög., 1844, p. 122. Type, by monotypy, Falco aguia Temminck = Spizaetus melanoleucus Vieillot." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 227).
Var. Geranaetus.
Synon. Heteroaetus, Tachytriorchis.
albicaudata / albicaudatus
L. albus white; caudatus tailed < cauda tail.
● ex “Aguila coliblanca” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 10 (Geranoaetus).
SUBSPECIES
White-tailed Hawk (hypospodius)
SCI Name: Geranoaetus albicaudatus hypospodius
hypospodia / hypospodium / hypospodius
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; σποδιος spodios ash-coloured < σποδος spodos ashes.
White-tailed Hawk (colonus)
SCI Name: Geranoaetus albicaudatus colonus
colonus
L. colonus farmer, rustic (e.g. with homely brown plumage; of the countryside); colonist, inhabitant < colere to cultivate.
● Spanish settlers’ name Colon given to the Long-tailed Tyrant in Paraguay and Argentina; ex “El Colon” of de Azara 1805, no. CLXXX (Colonia).
White-tailed Hawk (albicaudatus)
SCI Name: Geranoaetus albicaudatus albicaudatus
albicaudata / albicaudatus
L. albus white; caudatus tailed < cauda tail.
● ex “Aguila coliblanca” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 10 (Geranoaetus).
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)