''Erythrotriorchis'' is a genus of
bird of prey
Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds). In addition to speed and strength, these predator ...
in the family
Accipitridae
The Accipitridae is one of the three families within the order Accipitriformes, and is a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium- ...
.
It contains the following species:
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Chestnut-shouldered goshawk (''Erythrotriorchis buergersi'')
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Red goshawk (''Erythrotriorchis radiatus'')
Etymology
"Erythro-" is from a
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
word for "red", and "triorchis" meant a kind of hawk thought to have three
testicle
A testicle or testis (plural testes) is the male reproductive gland or gonad in all bilaterians, including humans. It is homologous to the female ovary. The functions of the testes are to produce both sperm and androgens, primarily testostero ...
s. For further details see ''
Eutriorchis''.
Taxonomy
Latham described the red goshawk as ''Falco radiatus'' in 1801. Sharpe defined
[As cited by Peters: ] ''Erythrotriorchis'' in 1875 as a new monotypic genus for ''Falco radiatus''.
Peters also included ''E. doriae'' in the genus,
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Doria's goshawk or Doria's hawk, (''Megatriorchis doriae'') is a raptor, the only member of the genus ''Megatriorchis''.
Description
At up to 69 cm long, it is among the biggest hawks in the broad sense. It is greyish-brown with a black-bar ...
is now classified separately as ''Megatriorchis doriae''.
References
Bird genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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