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Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's hawk)

Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae

Taxonomy
Falco cooperi was named by Bonaparte (1828). It is extant.

It was recombined as Accipiter cooperi by Hay (1930), Schultz and Howard (1935) and Broughton (2004); it was recombined as Accipiter cooperii by Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942) and Clements et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Falco cooperi Bonaparte
1930Accipiter cooperi Hay p. 315
1935Accipiter cooperi Schultz and Howard p. 276
1940Accipiter cooperii Wetmore p. 34
1942Accipiter cooperii Miller and DeMay p. 97
2004Accipiter cooperi Broughton p. 23
2017Accipiter cooperii Clements et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
orderAccipitriformesVieillot 1816
familyAccipitridaeViellot 1816
genusAccipiterBrisson 1760
speciescooperii(Bonaparte 1828)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Accipiter cooperii Bonaparte 1828 [Cooper's hawk]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialf
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: volantf
Diet: carnivoref
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 16:32:13
Modified: 2009-01-03 18:32:13
Source: f = family, o = order
References: Naka 2004, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Gelasian to the top of the Holocene or 2.58800 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806USA (Florida) Accipiter cooperii (20384)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Florida) Accipiter cooperii (20350)
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012USA (California) Accipiter cooperii (150336)
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012USA (Florida) Accipiter cooperii (20398 20491)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Accipiter cooperi (44954 218989) Accipiter cooperii (190077)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Accipiter cooperii (20571 20595)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Accipiter cooperi (93281) Accipiter cooperii (71670)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Accipiter cooperii (154722)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0USA (Virginia) Accipiter cooperii (104034)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (California) Accipiter cooperi (194908)