Falco lanarius
Taxonavigation
editFamilia: Falconidae
Subfamilia: Falconinae
Genus: Falco
Species: Falco lanarius
Name
edit- Falco lanarius Linnaeus, 1758, nomen dubium
References
edit- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL p. 91 BHL Reference page.
- Leonardi, G., & Sutton, L. J. 2020. Falco lanarius : the contorted history of a poetical archetype and a taxonomic puzzle. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12: 22 (concludes Linnaeus's specimen was most likely a juvenile Falco rusticolus Linnaeus, 1758: "The description of the F. lanarius in the Systema Naturae by Linneaus (1758) more closely matches a gyrfalcon, a description which was probably derived from a young bird killed in Sweden").