Nisaetus

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Nisaetus
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Changeable hawk-eagle
Nisaetus cirrhatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Aquilinae
Genus: Nisaetus
Hodgson, 1836
Type species
Nisaetus nipalensis
Hodgson, 1836
Species

Nisaetus alboniger (Blyth, 1845)
Nisaetus bartelsi Stresemann, 1924
Nisaetus cirrhatus (Gmelin, 1788)
Nisaetus floris (E. Hartert, 1898)
Nisaetus kelaarti (Legge, 1878)
Nisaetus lanceolatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
Nisaetus nanus Wallace, 1868
Nisaetus nipalensis (Hodgson, 1836)
Nisaetus philippensis Gould, 1863
Nisaetus pinskeri Preleuthner and Gamauf, 1998

Nisaetus (Crested hawk-eagles group) is a genus of subfamily Aquilinae found mainly in tropical Asia. They were earlier placed within the genus Spizaetus but molecular studies show that the Old World representatives were closer to the genus Ictinaetus than to the New World Spizaetus (in the stricter sense). They are slender-bodied, medium-sized hawk-eagles with rounded wings, long feathered legs, barred wings, crests and usually adapted to forest habitats.

Taxonomy and species

These Old World species were formerly placed in the genus Spizaetus . They were moved to the resurrected genus Nisaetus based on the results of molecular genetic studies published in 2005 and 2007. [1] [2] [3] The genus Nisaetus had been introduced in 1836 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the mountain hawk-eagle as the type species. [4] The genus name Nisaetus combines the Medieval Latin nisus for a sparrowhawk with the Ancient Greek aetos meaning "eagle". [5] The genus contains ten species. [6]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Nisaetus kelaarti (Thattekad, Kerala).jpg Nisaetus kelaarti(Legge, 1878) Legge's hawk-eagle southern India to Sri Lanka
Wallace's Hawk-eagle (Nisaetus nanus) (8067762642).jpg Nisaetus nanusWallace, 1868 [7] Wallace's hawk-eagle Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand
Nisaetus nipalensis.jpg Nisaetus nipalensis(Hodgson, 1836) [8] Mountain hawk-eagle India, Nepal to Thailand, Taiwan and Japan
Nisaetus alboniger -Jurong Bird Park, Singapore-6a.jpg Nisaetus alboniger(Blyth, 1845) [9] Blyth's hawk-eagle Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo
ELJA.jpg Nisaetus bartelsiStresemann, 1924 [10] Javan hawk-eagle Java
Sulawesi-hawk eagle.jpg Nisaetus lanceolatusTemminck & Schlegel, 1844 [11] Sulawesi hawk-eagle Sulawesi and its satellite islands of Buton, Muna, Banggai and Sula Islands
Pinskers hawk eagle 2.jpg Nisaetus pinskeriPreleuthner and Gamauf, 1998 Pinsker's hawk-eagle Leyte, Samar, Negros and Mindanao in the Philippines
Nisaetus philippensis.jpg Nisaetus philippensisGould, 1863 [12] Philippine hawk-eagle Philippines
Crested hawk eagle SOP.jpg Nisaetus cirrhatus(Gmelin, 1788) [13] Changeable hawk-eagle India and Sri Lanka, and from the southeast rim of the Himalaya across Southeast Asia to Indonesia and the Philippines
Nisaetus floris 2012 Indonesia stamp.jpg Nisaetus floris(E. Hartert, 1898) [14] Flores hawk-eagle Flores, Lombok and Sumbawa in the Lesser Sundas

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