Nisaetus, the crested hawk-eagles, is a genus of raptor in the subfamily Aquilinae, found mainly in tropical Asia. They were earlier placed within the genus Spizaetus but molecular studies show that the Old World representatives of that genus are closer to the genus Ictinaetus than to the New World Spizaetus (in the stricter sense). They are slender-bodied, medium-sized hawk-eagles with rounded wings, long feathered legs, barred wings, crests and usually adapted to forest habitats.
Nisaetus | |
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Changeable hawk-eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Subfamily: | Aquilinae |
Genus: | Nisaetus Hodgson, 1836 |
Type species | |
Nisaetus nipalensis Hodgson, 1836
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Species | |
Nisaetus alboniger (Blyth, 1845) |
Taxonomy and species
editThese Old World species were formerly placed in the genus Spizaetus. They were moved to the resurrected genus Nisaetus based on the results of molecular genetic studies published in 2005 and 2007.[1][2][3] The genus Nisaetus had been introduced in 1836 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the mountain hawk-eagle as the type species.[4] The genus name Nisaetus combines the Medieval Latin nisus for a sparrowhawk with the Ancient Greek aetos meaning "eagle".[5] The genus contains ten species.[6]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Nisaetus kelaarti (Legge, 1878) | Legge's hawk-eagle | southern India to Sri Lanka | |
Nisaetus nanus Wallace, 1868[7] | Wallace's hawk-eagle | Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand | |
Nisaetus nipalensis (Hodgson, 1836)[8] | Mountain hawk-eagle | India, Nepal to Thailand, Taiwan and Japan | |
Nisaetus alboniger (Blyth, 1845)[9] | Blyth's hawk-eagle | Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo | |
Nisaetus bartelsi Stresemann, 1924[10] | Javan hawk-eagle | Java | |
Nisaetus lanceolatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844[11] | Sulawesi hawk-eagle | Sulawesi and its satellite islands of Buton, Muna, Banggai and Sula Islands | |
Nisaetus pinskeri Preleuthner and Gamauf, 1998 | Pinsker's hawk-eagle | Leyte, Samar, Negros and Mindanao in the Philippines | |
Nisaetus philippensis Gould, 1863[12] | Philippine hawk-eagle | Philippines | |
Nisaetus cirrhatus (Gmelin, 1788)[13] | Changeable hawk-eagle | India and Sri Lanka, and from the southeast rim of the Himalaya across Southeast Asia to Indonesia and the Philippines | |
Nisaetus floris (E. Hartert, 1898)[14] | Flores hawk-eagle | Flores, Lombok and Sumbawa in the Lesser Sundas |
References
edit- ^ Helbig, A.J.; Kocum, A.; Seibold, I.; Braun, M.J. (2005). "A multi-gene phylogeny of aquiline eagles (Aves: Accipitriformes) reveals extensive paraphyly at the genus level". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 35 (1): 147–164. Bibcode:2005MolPE..35..147H. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.003. PMID 15737588.
- ^ Haring, E.; Kvaløy, K.; Gjershaug, J.-O.; Røv, N.; Gamauf, A. (2007). "Convergent evolution and paraphyly of the hawk-eagles of the genus Spizaetus (Aves, Accipitridae) – phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial markers". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 45 (4): 353–365. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2007.00410.x.
- ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
- ^ Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1836). "Summary description of some new species of Falconidae". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 5 (52): 227–231 [228–230].
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 272–273. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Nisaetus nanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22696186A182891668. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22696186A182891668.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Nisaetus nipalensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22696153A93547115. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22696153A93547115.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Nisaetus alboniger". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22696159A93547439. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22696159A93547439.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Nisaetus bartelsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22696165A110050373. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22696165A110050373.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Nisaetus lanceolatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22696172A93547970. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22696172A93547970.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Nisaetus philippensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T45015567A95139313. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T45015567A95139313.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Nisaetus cirrhatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22732090A181767197. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22732090A181767197.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Nisaetus floris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22732096A125448523. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22732096A125448523.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.