Erythrotriorchis
A male Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus) in flight
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Accipitrinae
Genus: Erythrotriorchis
Sharpe, 1875
Type species
Falco radiatus[1]
Latham, 1801

Erythrotriorchis is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It contains the following species:[2]

Etymology

"Erythro-" is from a Greek word for "red", and "triorchis" meant a kind of hawk thought to have three testicles. For further details see Eutriorchis.

Taxonomy

Latham described the red goshawk as Falco radiatus in 1801. Sharpe defined[3] Erythrotriorchis in 1875 as a new monotypic genus for Falco radiatus.

Peters also included E. doriae in the genus,[4] though Doria's goshawk is now classified separately as Megatriorchis doriae.

References

Wikispecies has information related to Erythrotriorchis.
  1. ^ "Accipitridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Erythrotriorchis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  3. ^ As cited by Peters: Sharpe (1875). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.: 337. ((cite journal)): Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ Peters, James Lee (1931). Check-list of birds of the world: volume 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.14581. S2CID 41950882. p. 225


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