Erythrotriorchis

Erythrotriorchis
	A male Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus) in flight
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Genus:	Erythrotriorchis; Sharpe, 1875

Erythrotriorchis is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It contains the following species:^[1]

Chestnut-shouldered goshawk (Erythrotriorchis buergersi)
Red goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)

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^[2] Erythrotriorchis in 1875 as a new monotypic genus for Falco radiatus.

Peters also included E. doriae in the genus,^[3] though Doria's goshawk is now classified separately as Megatriorchis doriae.

References[]

^ "Erythrotriorchis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
^ As cited by Peters: Sharpe (1875). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.: 337. Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Peters, James Lee (1931). Check-list of birds of the world: volume 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.14581. p. 225

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[ITIS-1] "Erythrotriorchis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 May 2011.

[Sharpe1875-2] As cited by Peters: Sharpe (1875). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.: 337. Missing or empty |title= (help)

[Peters1931-3] Peters, James Lee (1931). Check-list of birds of the world: volume 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.14581. p. 225

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