Erythrotriorchis

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Erythrotriorchis

Genus of birds

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

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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. [1]
    "Accipitridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. [2]
    "Erythrotriorchis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  3. [3]
    As cited by Peters: Sharpe (1875). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.: 337. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. [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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