Powerful goshawk
Powerful goshawk Temporal range: Holocene
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Genus: | Accipiter |
Species: | †A. efficax
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Binomial name | |
†Accipiter efficax Balouet & Olson, 1989
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The powerful goshawk (Accipiter efficax), also referred to as the greater New Caledonian goshawk, is an extinct species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It was endemic to the island of New Caledonia in Melanesia in the southwest Pacific region. It was described from subfossil bones found at the Pindai Caves paleontological site on the west coast of Grande Terre. The Latin specific epithet efficax means "powerful".[1]
References[]
- ^ Balouet, J.C.; Olson, Storrs L. (1989). "Fossil birds from Late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 469: 6–7. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.469.
Categories:
- Accipiter
- Extinct birds of New Caledonia
- Holocene extinctions
- Birds described in 1989
- Taxa named by Jean-Christophe Balouet
- Late Quaternary prehistoric birds