Red-chested goshawk

Red-chested goshawk
Illustration by Keulemans, 1874
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Aerospiza
Species:
A. toussenelii
Binomial name
Aerospiza toussenelii
Subspecies[3]
  • A. t. macroscelides - (Hartlaub, 1855)
  • A. t. lopezi - (Alexander, 1903)
  • A. t. toussenelii - (Verreaux, J, Verreaux, E & Des Murs, 1855)
  • A. t. canescens - (Chapin, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Nisus Toussenelii (protonym)
  • Accipiter macroscelides

The red-chested goshawk (Aerospiza toussenelii) is a medium-size hawk of West Africa. It is often considered conspecific with the African goshawk.[4] This species was formerly placed in the genus Accipiter.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Accipiter toussenelii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22727705A94957870. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22727705A94957870.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Verreaux, J, Verreaux, É & des Murs, 1855. Nisus Toussenelii (protonym). Journal für Ornithologie, 3, p. 101. BHL
  3. ^ Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.
  4. ^ Ferguson-Lees, James; Christie, David A. (2001), Raptors of the World, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 521–523, ISBN 978-0-618-12762-7