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Buteo quadratus (Bahama red-shouldered hawk)
Taxonomy
Calohierax quadratus was named by Wetmore (1937). Its type specimen is MCZ 2256, a limb element (tarsometatarsus, distal end), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Upper Pasture Cave, Little Exuma, which is in a Pleistocene cave limestone in the Bahamas.
It was synonymized subjectively with Buteo lineatus by Olson (2000); it was recombined as Buteo quadratus by Oswald and Steadman (2018).
It was synonymized subjectively with Buteo lineatus by Olson (2000); it was recombined as Buteo quadratus by Oswald and Steadman (2018).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1937 | Calohierax quadratus Wetmore p. 429 figs. 1-3 |
1956 | Calohierax quadratus Wetmore p. 44 |
2018 | Buteo quadratus Oswald and Steadman p. 366 |
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†Buteo quadratus Wetmore 1937 [Bahama red-shouldered hawk]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available