Galapagos Hawk / Buteo galapagoensis
WBN 
Galapagos Hawk
SCI Name:
Protonym: Polyborus galapagoensis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt5 no.49 p.9
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Buteo
Taxonomy Code: galhaw1
Type Locality: Galapagos Islands.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1837
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
BUTEO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Common Buzzard B. buteo) Specific name Falco buteo Linnaeus, 1758. "BUSE, Buteo. Bec, tête et base du bec des Éperviers; ailes des Aigles; tarse gros et court." (de Lacépède 1799); "Buteo Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 4. Type, by tautonymy, Falco buteo Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 228).
Var. Bateo, Biteo.
Synon. Amplibuteo, Archibuteo, Asturina, Asturisca, Brewsteria, Butaetes, Butaquila, Buteaetos, Buteola, Buthierax, Cerchne, Circobuteo, Coryornis, Craxirex, Dromolestes, Hemiaetus, Limnaetus, Limnosalus, Onychotes, Poecilopternis, Praedo, Pterolestes, Triorchis.
buteo
L. buteo, buteonis buzzard; "41. FALCO. ... Buteo. 14. F. cera pedibusque luteis, corpore fusco, abdomine pallido maculis fuscis. Buteo vulgaris. Gesn. av. 46. Will. ornith. 38. t. 6. Raj. av. 16. Buteo. Alb. av. I. p. 1. t. 1. Habitat in Europa, Cuniculis & Bufonibus infestus." (Linnaeus 1758) (Buteo).
galapagensis / galapagoensis
Galápagos Is. (Spanish galopegos tortoises).
● Erroneous TL. Galápagos Is. (= California) (syn. Zonotrichia coronata).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
