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Aegypiinae (Old World vulture)
Taxonomy
Aegypiinae was named as a subfamily. It is extant.
It was reranked as the family Aegypiidae by Hay (1930); it was synonymized subjectively with Accipitridae by Amadon (1977).
It was assigned to Falconoidae by Hay (1930); and to Accipitridae by Miller and Compton (1939), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1943), Wetmore (1956), Feduccia (1974), Zhang et al. (2010).
It was reranked as the family Aegypiidae by Hay (1930); it was synonymized subjectively with Accipitridae by Amadon (1977).
It was assigned to Falconoidae by Hay (1930); and to Accipitridae by Miller and Compton (1939), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1943), Wetmore (1956), Feduccia (1974), Zhang et al. (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Aegypiidae Hay p. 323 |
| 1939 | Aegypiinae Miller and Compton p. 156 |
| 1940 | Aegypiinae Wetmore p. 32 |
| 1943 | Aegypiinae Wetmore p. 229 |
| 1956 | Aegypiinae Wetmore p. 38 |
| 1974 | Aegypiinae Feduccia |
| 2010 | Aegypiinae Zhang et al. p. 406 |
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Subfm. Aegypiinae [Old World vulture]
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G. Aegypius Savigny 1809
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Aegypius monachus Linnaeus 1766 [cinereous vulture]
†Aegypius prepyrenaicus Carrasquilla 2001
Invalid names: Sarcogyps Lesson 1842 [synonym], Torgos Kaup 1828 [synonym]
G. †Neophrontops Miller 1916
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†Neophrontops americanus Miller 1916
†Neophrontops dakotensis Compton 1935
†Neophrontops slaughteri Feduccia 1974
†Neophrontops vallecitoensis Howard 1963
†Neophrontops vetustus Wetmore 1943
G. †Palaeoborus Coues 1884
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†Palaeoborus howardae Wetmore 1936
†Palaeoborus rosatus Miller and Compton 1939
†Palaeoborus umbrosus Cope 1874
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available