Long-legged Buzzard / Buteo rufinus
Long-legged Buzzard
SCI Name:
Protonym: Falco rufinus AtlasReis.nord.Afr.Vog.[Ruppell](1826) -1826 p.40 pl.27
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Buteo
Taxonomy Code: lolbuz1
Type Locality: upper Nubia, Shendi, Sennar, and Ethiopia.
Author: Cretzschmar
Publish Year: 1829
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BUTEO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Common Buzzard B. buteo) Specific name Falco buteo Linnaeus, 1758. "BUSE, Buteo. Bec, tête et base du bec des Éperviers; ailes des Aigles; tarse gros et court." (de Lacépède 1799); "Buteo Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 4. Type, by tautonymy, Falco buteo Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 228).
Var. Bateo, Biteo.
Synon. Amplibuteo, Archibuteo, Asturina, Asturisca, Brewsteria, Butaetes, Butaquila, Buteaetos, Buteola, Buthierax, Cerchne, Circobuteo, Coryornis, Craxirex, Dromolestes, Hemiaetus, Limnaetus, Limnosalus, Onychotes, Poecilopternis, Praedo, Pterolestes, Triorchis.
buteo
L. buteo, buteonis buzzard; "41. FALCO. ... Buteo. 14. F. cera pedibusque luteis, corpore fusco, abdomine pallido maculis fuscis. Buteo vulgaris. Gesn. av. 46. Will. ornith. 38. t. 6. Raj. av. 16. Buteo. Alb. av. I. p. 1. t. 1. Habitat in Europa, Cuniculis & Bufonibus infestus." (Linnaeus 1758) (Buteo).
rufinus
Med. L. rufinus golden, golden-red < L. rufus ruddy.
● ex “Coucal Rufin” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 221 (syn. Centropus benghalensis).
SUBSPECIES
Long-legged Buzzard (Northern)
SCI Name: Buteo rufinus rufinus
rufinus
Med. L. rufinus golden, golden-red < L. rufus ruddy.
● ex “Coucal Rufin” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 221 (syn. Centropus benghalensis).
Long-legged Buzzard (Atlas)
SCI Name: Buteo rufinus cirtensis
cirtensis
L. Cirtensis of Cirta, Numidia (= Constantine, Algeria).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)