Circaetus spectabilis
Appearance


Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Accipitridae
Subfamilia: Circaetinae
Genus: Circaetus
Species: Circaetus spectabilis
Subspecies: C. s. batesi – C. s. spectabilis
Name
[edit]Circaetus spectabilis (Schlegel, 1863)
- Type locality: St. George Elmina, Gold Coast (Ghana).
Synonymy
[edit]- Astur spectabilis (protonym)
- Dryotriorchis spectabilis (Schlegel, 1863)
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Descriptions de deux espèces inédites d'autour du sous-genre Herpetotheres. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor De Dierkunde 1 p. 131 BHL pl. 6
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.
- 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.
Vernacular names
[edit]- čeština: Orlík jestřábovitý
- Deutsch: Kongoschlangenadler
- English: Congo Serpent Eagle
- español: Culebrera congoleña
- français: Serpentaire du Congo
- italiano: Serpentario del Congo
- Nederlands: Congolese Slangenarend
- polski: Wężojad kongijski
- português: águia-cobreira-congolesa
- svenska: kongoormörn