The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Gypiscus

(Accipitridae; syn. Necrosyrtes  Hooded Vulture N. monachus pileatus) Dim. < genus Gyps de Savigny, 1809, vulture; "Gypiscus n. g. (Vultur pileatus Burch. Pl. Col. 222; Neophron pil. Gr., Schl.) rostro angusto, longiusculo debili, naribus longit. oblongis.  Caput et collum ut in gen. præcedente [Gyps]" (Sundevall 1873); "Gypiscus Sundevall, 1873, Methodi Naturalis Avium Dispon. Tentamen, pt. II, p. 110.  Type, by monotypy, Vultur pileatus Burchell, 1824." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Gypsicus.


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