Stephanoaetus
Genus of birds
| Stephanoaetus Temporal range: Holocene | |
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| Crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Subfamily: | Aquilinae |
| Genus: | Stephanoaetus W.L. Sclater, 1922 |
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Stephanoaetus is a genus of very large birds of prey from Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. Only one of the two known species is extant.
Species
- Crowned eagle or crowned hawk-eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus).
- † Malagasy crowned eagle or Madagascar crowned hawk-eagle (Stephanoaetus mahery).[1]
References
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- ^ Goodman, Steven M. (1994). Description of a New Species of Subfossil Eagle from Madagascar: Stephanoaetus (Aves: Falconiformes) from the Deposits of Ampasambazimba. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 107(3): 421–428 ISSN 0006-324X [1] [2]
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Clade: Telluraves
- Clade: Accipitrimorphae
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