Subgenus Hieraaetus (Hieraaetus) Kaup, 1844

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• Hieraaetus Kaup, J.J. 1844. Classification der Säugethiere und Vögel. Darmstadt : C.W. Leske x 144 pp. [120].

  Type species:

   Falco pennatus Gmelin, 1788 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [84].
• Hieraetus Kaup, J.J. 1844. Classification der Säugethiere und Vögel. Darmstadt : C.W. Leske x 144 pp. [120].

  Type species:

   Falco pennatus Gmelin, 1788 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Sharpe, R.B. 1874. Catalogue of the Accipitres or Diurnal Birds of Prey in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Trustees Vol. 1 pp.xiii+479. [301].
• Hieraetus Gray, G.R. 1845. The genera of birds: comprising Their Generic characters, notice of the habits of each Genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera. London : British Museum Trustees Vol. 1 pp.300 + 72 pl. [14] [new name for Hieraaëtus Kaup, 1844].
• Hieracaaetus Giebel, C.G.A. 1874. Thesaurus ornithologiae. Repertorium der gesammten ornithologischen Literatur und Nomenclatur Sämmtlicher Gattungen und Arten der Vögel nebst Synonymen und geographischer Verbreitung. Leipzig : F.A. Brockhaus Vol. 2(fasc. 1) vi + 787 pp. [331] [new name (suggested correction) for Hieraaëtus Kaup, 1844].
• Hieracaetus Agassiz, J.L.R. 1846. Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum. Soloduri : Sumtibus et typis Jent et Gassmann. 1-1135 pp. [523].

  Type species:

   Aquila pennata Gmelin, 1788 by monotypy.
• Hieroaetus Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus Generum Avium. Tom. I. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill 543 pp. [Date published 24 Jun 1850] [13] [nomen nudum, ex Kaup, 1820].
• Jeraetus Kaup, J.J. 1850. Corrigirte Uebersicht der Falconidae. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 16(1): 27-41 [36].

  Type species:

   Aquila morphnoides Gould, J., 1841 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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