Martial Eagle / Polemaetus bellicosus
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Martial Eagle
SCI Name:
Protonym: Falco bellicosus TraitedOrn.[Daudin] 2 p.38
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Polemaetus
Taxonomy Code: mareag1
Type Locality: Great Namaqualand, Cape Province.
Author: Daudin
Publish Year: 1800
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
POLEMAETUS
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Martial Eagle P. bellicosus) Gr. πολεμος polemos battle, war; αετος aetos eagle; "AIGLE GRIFFARD. ... Cet Aigle ... possède éminemment le courage, la force, et des serres redoutables. ... il poursuit sans exception tous les Rapaces" (Daudin 1800); "Genus Polemaëtus Heine 1885. 1. bellicosus (Daud.)" (Heine 1890); "Polemaëtus Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, p. 270. Type, by monotypy, Falco bellicosus Daudin." (Peters 1931, I, 251).
Synon. Eutolmaetus.
bellicosa / bellicosus
L. bellicosus aggressive, martial < bellicus of war < bellum, belli war.
● ex “Suirirí roxo obscuro” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 189 (Hirundinea).
● ex “Griffard” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 1 (Polemaetus).
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)
