Stephanoaetus
| Stephanoaetus Temporal range: Holocene
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| Crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Subfamily: | Aquilinae |
| Genus: | Stephanoaetus W.L. Sclater, 1922 |
| Type species | |
| Falco coronatus[1] Linnaeus, 1766
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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
[edit]- Crowned eagle or crowned hawk-eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus).
- † Malagasy crowned eagle or Madagascar crowned hawk-eagle (Stephanoaetus mahery).[2]
References
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- ^ "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
- ^ 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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