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Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
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Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
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Cladus: Avialae
Subclassis: Aves
Infraclassis: Neognathae
Cladus: Neoaves
Ordo: Accipitriformes
Familia: Accipitridae
Subfamilia: Milvinae
Genus: Harpagus
Species: H. bidentatus - H. diodon
Name
Harpagus Vigors, 1824
References
(The) Zoological Journal. 1 p.338
Harpagus is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae. It comprises:
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Harpagus bidentatus | Double-toothed kite | Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela |
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Harpagus diodon | Rufous-thighed kite | Brazil, Paraguay and eastern Bolivia ; winters north to the Amazon basin and the Guyana Shield |
Both live in tropical American forest. They are small, rather accipiter-like kites, 30 to 35 cm long and compact, with long tails and oval wings ("pinched in" near the base of the trailing edge) which they characteristically curve downward when soaring or gliding. Both have dark tails with pale bars, as well as a white throat with a dark stripe down the middle. Another shared feature is a blunt bill with two notches on each side of the upper mandible. This "double tooth" gave rise not only to the common name of one species but to the specific epithets bidentatus and diodon. Both like rather high perches in trees and sometimes soar above the forest.
Harpagus was the Greek name of a Median general.
References
Hilty, Steven L. (2003). Birds of Venezuela. Princeton University Press. pp. 229–230. ISBN 0-691-09250-8.
Howell, Steve N. G.; Webb, Sophie (1995). A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. Oxford University Press. pp. 183. ISBN 0-19-854012-4.
Peterson, Alan P. (Editor). 1999. Zoological Nomenclature Resource (Zoonomen). Accessed 2007-08-22.
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