Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Erythrotriorchis Higher classification Accipitrinae Order Accipitriformes | Family Accipitridae Phylum Chordata Rank Genus | |
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Lower classifications Red goshawk, Chestnut-shouldered goshawk | ||
Erythrotriorchis is a genus of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It contains the following species:
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Etymology
"Erythro-" is from a Greek word for "red", and "triorchis" meant a kind of hawk thought to have three testicles. For further details see Eutriorchis.
Taxonomy
Latham described the red goshawk as Falco radiatus in 1801. Sharpe defined Erythrotriorchis in 1875 as a new monotypic genus for Falco radiatus.
Peters also included E. doriae in the genus, though Doria's goshawk is now classified separately as Megatriorchis doriae.
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