Notes on the Taxonomy of Vultures
Notes on the Taxonomy of Vultures
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关于秃鹫分类的注释
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1977
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D. Amadon
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D. Amadon
大多数秃鹫表面上的相似性使早期的博物学家将它们全部归为一个群体。例如，林奈将新大陆和旧大陆的秃鹫都归为秃鹫属，甚至将鹰身雕也包括在内。安第斯秃鹰（Vultur gryphus）最终通过“淘汰”成为这一属的模式，所有其他物种都被归为其他属。不久，解剖学家发现了新大陆和旧大陆之间的根本区别。
The superficial similarity of most vultures led early naturalists to place all of them in a single group. Linnaeus, for example, assigned vultures from both the Old and New World to his genus Vultur, and even included the Harpy Eagle in it. The Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) eventually became the type of this genus by "elimination," all the other species having been assigned to other genera. Soon anatomists discovered fundamental differences between the Old and New World