The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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ictinus

Gr. ικτιν iktin or ικτινος iktinos  kite (syn. Milvus milvus).


Ictinus

(Accipitridae; syn. Milvus † Red Kite M. milvus) Gr. ικτιν iktin or Î¹ÎºÏ„ινος iktinos kite; "Ictinus milvus, Kite." (F. Morris 1837) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Ictinus F. O.Morris, 1837, The Naturalist (ed. N. Wood), II (9), p. 123.  New name for Milvus de Lacépède, 1799, thus avoiding the use of the abhorrent tautonym Milvus milvus." (JAJ 2021) (see Seiren).


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