Astur
Appearance

Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Accipitridae
Subfamilia: Accipitrinae
Genus: Astur
Species (9): A. atricapillus – A. bicolor – A. chilensis – A. cooperii – A. gentilis – A. gundlachi – A. henstii – A. melanoleucus – A. meyerianus
Name
[edit]Astur Lacépède, 1799
- Typus: Falco palumbarius Linnaeus, 1758 = Falco gentilis Linnaeus, 1758 = Astur gentilis, by subsequent designation.
Synonymy
[edit]- Daedalion Savigny, 1809
- Sparvius Vieillot, 1816
- Asterias Morris, 1837
- Phabotypus Gloger, 1842
- Cooperastur Bonaparte, 1854
- Leptohierax Sundevall, 1874
- Neonisus Roberts, 1922
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Lacepède, B.G.E. 1799. Discours d'ouverture et de clôture du cours d'histoire naturelle. Donné dans le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, l'an VII de la République, et Tableaux methodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux. Paris. MDZ. Discours pp. 1–55. Mammifères pp. 1–18. Oiseaux pp. 1–20. Reference page. p. 4
Additional references
[edit]- Lerner, H.R.L., & Mindell, D.P. 2005. Phylogeny of eagles, Old World vultures, and other Accipitridae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(2): 327–346. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.010 Reference page.
- Mindell, D.P., Fuchs, J. & Johnson, J.A. 2018. Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Geographic Diversity of Diurnal Raptors: Falconiformes, Accipitriformes, and Cathartiformes. P. 3–32. In Birds of Prey: biology and conservation in the XXI century. J.H. Sarasola, J.M. Grande & J.J. Negro (editors). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73745-4_1 ResearchGate Reference page.
- Catanach, T.E., Halley, M.R. & Pirro, S. 2024. Enigmas no longer: using ultraconserved elements to place several unusual hawk taxa and address the non-monophyly of the genus Accipiter (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society blae028. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blae028 ResearchGate Reference page.