Melierax: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Genus
- Melierax
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Melierax
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Melierax
Melierax is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Established by George Robert Gray in 1840, it contains the following species:
The name Melierax is a combination of the Greek words melos, meaning "song" and hierax, meaning "hawk".
...Melierax in languages:
- Bokmål
- Sanghauker
- English
- Chanting Goshawks
- English
- Chanting-Goshawks
- Finnish
- lauluhaukat
- German
- Singhabichte
- Portuguese
- Açores-cantores
- Portuguese
- Açores-cantadores
- Russian
- Певчие ястребы
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Accipiter
- Aegypius
- Aquila
- Aviceda
- Bermuteo
- Busarellus
- Butastur
- Buteo
- Buteogallus
- Buteogallus × Buteo
- Chelictinia
- Chondrohierax
- Circaetus
- Circus
- Clanga
- Cryptoleucopteryx
- Dryotriorchis
- Elanoides
- Elanus
- Erythrotriorchis
- Eutriorchis
- Gampsonyx
- Geranoaetus
- Geranospiza
- Gypaetus
- Gypohierax
- Gyps
- Haliaeetus
- Haliastur
- Hamirostra
- Harpagus
- Harpia
- Harpyopsis
- Helicolestes
- Henicopernis
- Hieraaetus
- Ictinaetus
- Ictinia
- Kaupifalco
- Leptodon
- Leucopternis
- Lophaetus
- Lophoictinia
- Lophotriorchis
- Macheiramphus
- Megatriorchis
- Melierax
- Micronisus
- Microspizias
- Milvus
- Morphnarchus
- Morphnus
- Necrosyrtes
- Neophron
- Nisaetus
- Parabuteo
- Pernis
- Pithecophaga
- Polemaetus
- Polyboroides
- Pseudastur
- Rostrhamus
- Rupornis
- Sarcogyps
- Spilornis
- Spizaetus
- Stephanoaetus
- Terathopius
- Titanohierax
- Torgos
- Trigonoceps
- Urotriorchis










































