Falco
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Falco est genus avium familiae Falconidarum. Falconum sunt triginta septem species, per orbem pervulgatae.
Vide etiam paginam discretivam: Falco (discretiva).
Falco berigora
Classis : Aves
Ordo : Falconiformes
Familia : Falconidae
Subfamilia : Falconinae
Genus : Falco
Linnaeus, 1758
Ordo : Falconiformes
Familia : Falconidae
Subfamilia : Falconinae
Genus : Falco
Linnaeus, 1758
Subdivisiones: Species
Circa 37; vide commentarium.
Synonyma
* Aesalon
- Lithofalco
- Tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1766
- Hierofalco Cuvier, 1817
- Cerchneis Boie, 1826
- Hypotriorchis Boie, 1826
- Rhynchodon Nitzsch, 1829
- Ieracidea Gould, 1838
- Hieracidea Strickland, 1841 (unjustified emendation)Formula:Verify source
- Gennaia Kaup, 1847
- Jerafalco Kaup, 1850 (unjustified emendation)
- Harpe Bonaparte, 1855 (non Lacepède 1802Formula:Verify source: preoccupied)
- Dissodectes Sclater, 1864
- Genaïe Heuglin, 1867 (unjustified emendation)Formula:Verify source
- Harpa Sharpe, 1874 (non Pallas 1774: preoccupied)
- Gennadas Heine & Reichenow, 1890Formula:Verify source (unjustified emendation)Formula:Verify source
- Nesierax Oberholser, 1899
- Nesihierax Dubois, 1902 (unjustified emendation)
- Asturaetus De Vis, 1906 (non Asturaetos Brehm 1855: preoccupied)
- Plioaetus Richmond, 1908
- Sushkinia Tugarinov, 1935 (non Martynov 1930: preoccupied) - see below
Falcones adultae habent alas tenues et acuminatas, quibus velociter volare et directionem? mutare possunt. Falcones peregrini observati sunt celeritate 320 km/h volantes; unde velocissimae in orbe terrarum bestiae sunt.
Homines diu falconibus in venatione usi sunt, quae falconaria appellatur.