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Aegypiinae

Aegypiinae
Lappet-faced vultures (left) and a white-backed vulture
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Aegypiinae
Sclater, WL, 1924
Type genus
Aegypius
Savigny, 1809

Aegypiinae is one of two subfamilies of Accipitridae that are referred to as Old World vultures, the other being the Gypaetinae. They are not closely related to the Gypaetinae, and are instead a sister group to the serpent-eagles (Circaetinae).[1][2]

Presently found throughout much of Africa, Asia, and parts of Europe, fossil evidence indicates that as recently as the Late Pleistocene, they ranged into Australia.[3][4]

Taxonomy

The subfamily Aegypiinae was introduced (as the family Aegypiidae) in 1924 by the British zoologist William Lutley Sclater with Aegypius Savigny, 1809, as the type genus.[5][6]

The cladogram of the Aegypiinae shown below is based on a molecular phylogenetic study of the Accipitridae by Therese Catanach and collaborators that was published in 2024.[2]

Aegypiinae

Necrosyrtes – hooded vulture

Gyps – vultures (8 species)

Sarcogyps – red-headed vulture

Trigonoceps – white-headed vulture

Torgos – lappet-faced vulture

Aegypius – cinereous vulture

Genera

Genus Common and binomial names Image Range
Necrosyrtes Gloger, 1841 Hooded vulture
Necrosyrtes monachus 		Sub-Saharan Africa
Gyps Savigny, 1809 Griffon vulture
Gyps fulvus 		Mountains in southern Europe, north Africa and Asia
White-rumped vulture
Gyps bengalensis 		Northern and central India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and southeast Asia
Rüppell's vulture
Gyps rueppelli 		The Sahel region of central Africa
Indian vulture
Gyps indicus 		Central and peninsular India
Slender-billed vulture
Gyps tenuirostris 		The Sub-Himalayan regions of India and into Southeast Asia
Himalayan vulture
Gyps himalayensis 		The Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau
White-backed vulture
Gyps africanus 		Savannahs of west and east Africa
Cape vulture
Gyps coprotheres 		Southern Africa
Sarcogyps Lesson, 1842 Red-headed vulture
Sarcogyps calvus 		The Indian Subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in Southeast Asia
Trigonoceps Lesson, 1842 White-headed vulture
Trigonoceps occipitalis 		Sub-Saharan Africa. Extinct populations have occurred in Indonesia.[7]
Torgos Kaup, 1828 Lappet-faced vulture
Torgos tracheliotos 		Sub-Saharan Africa, the Sinai and Negev deserts and north-west Saudi Arabia
Aegypius Savigny, 1809 Cinereous vulture
Aegypius monachus 		Southwestern and central Europe, Turkey, the central Middle East, northern India, central and east Asia
†Aegypius jinniushanensis Pleistocene of China
†Aegypius prepyrenaicus Pleistocene of Spain

Fossil genera

Subfamily Genus Common and binomial names Image Range
Aegypiinae †Cryptogyps †Cryptogyps lacertosus Pleistocene of Australia
†Gansugyps †Gansugyps linxiaensis Miocene of China

† = extinct

References

  1. ^ Lerner, Heather R. L.; Mindell, David P. (2005). "Phylogeny of eagles, Old World vultures, and other Accipitridae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37 (2): 327–346. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.010.
  2. ^ a b Catanach, T.A.; Halley, M.R.; Pirro, S. (2024). "Enigmas no longer: using ultraconserved elements to place several unusual hawk taxa and address the non-monophyly of the genus Accipiter (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: blae028. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blae028.
  3. ^ Mather, Ellen K.; Lee, Michael S. Y.; Worthy, Trevor H. (2022-07-20). "A new look at an old Australian raptor places "Taphaetus" lacertosus de Vis 1905 in the Old World vultures (Accipitridae: Aegypiinae)". Zootaxa. 5168 (1): 1–23. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5168.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 36101304. S2CID 250938004.
  4. ^ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
  5. ^ Sclater, William Lutley (1924). Systema avium aethiopicarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Ethiopian region. Vol. 1. London: British Ornithologists' Union. p. 47.
  6. ^ Bock, Walter J. (1994). History and Nomenclature of Avian Family-Group Names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 222. New York: American Museum of Natural History. pp. 133, 257.
  7. ^ Hanneke J.M.; et al. "Continental-style avian extinctions on an oceanic island" (PDF). Repository.si.edu. Retrieved 17 October 2018.

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