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Aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle)
Taxonomy
Falco chrysaetos was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Aquila.
It was misspelled as Aquila chrysaetus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927) and Zelenkov et al. (2008); it was recombined as Aquila chrysaetos by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Howard (1955), Wetmore (1956), Parmalee (1958), Howard (1963), Howard (1969), Weesie (1988), Mlikovsky (2002), Bedetti and Pavia (2007), Steadman and Mead (2010), Clements et al. (2017) and Carrera et al. (2018).
It was misspelled as Aquila chrysaetus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927) and Zelenkov et al. (2008); it was recombined as Aquila chrysaetos by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Howard (1955), Wetmore (1956), Parmalee (1958), Howard (1963), Howard (1969), Weesie (1988), Mlikovsky (2002), Bedetti and Pavia (2007), Steadman and Mead (2010), Clements et al. (2017) and Carrera et al. (2018).
Subspecies
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1758 | Falco chrysaetos Linnaeus |
1902 | Aquila chrysaetos Hay p. 536 |
1927 | Aquila chrysaetus Boule and De Villeneuve p. 82 |
1930 | Aquila chrysaetos Hay p. 318 |
1940 | Aquila chrysaetos Wetmore p. 38 |
1942 | Aquila chrysaetos Miller and DeMay p. 101 |
1955 | Aquila chrysaetos Howard p. 204 |
1956 | Aquila chrysaetos Wetmore p. 47 |
1958 | Aquila chrysaetos Parmalee p. 172 |
1963 | Aquila chrysaetos Howard p. 17 |
1969 | Aquila chrysaetos Howard p. 5 |
1988 | Aquila chrysaetos Weesie p. 18 figs. Pl 4, figs 1-5 |
2002 | Aquila chrysaetos Mlikovsky p. 193 |
2007 | Aquila chrysaetos Bedetti and Pavia p. 491 figs. Pl 1, figs A,B,C,H |
2008 | Aquila chrysaetus Zelenkov et al. |
2010 | Aquila chrysaetos Steadman and Mead p. 428 |
2017 | Aquila chrysaetos Clements et al. |
2018 | Aquila chrysaetos Carrera et al. p. 158 figs. Pl 2, fig 6 |
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Aquila chrysaetos Linnaeus 1758 [golden eagle]
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†Aquila chrysaetos simurgh Weesie 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available