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Clanga (bird)

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Clanga

Greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Aquilinae
Genus:	Clanga Adamowicz, 1854
Type species
Falco maculatus^[1] Gmelin, 1788

Clanga is a genus which contains the spotted eagles. The genus name is from Ancient Greek klangos, "eagle".^[2]

Amolecular phylogenetic study of the Accipitridae published in 2024 found that the genus Clanga was sister to the genus Ictinaetus which contains the black eagle.^[3]

Species[edit]

Genus **Clanga** – Adamowicz, 1854 – three species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Indian spotted eagle	Clanga hastata (Lesson, 1834)	Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Nepal.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU 2,500 - 9,999^[4]
Lesser spotted eagle	Clanga pomarina Brehm, 1831	Central and Eastern Europe and southeastward to Turkey and Armenia, and Africa	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC 40,000 - 60,000^[5]
Greater spotted eagle	Clanga clanga ((Pallas, 1811)	northern Europe eastwards across Eurasia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU 3,300 - 8,800^[6]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

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^ "Accipitridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

^ 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.

^ BirdLife International (2013). "Clanga hastata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.