Species profile
Buteo sanfelipensis
Buteo sanfelipensis
Quick answer
Holotype. — Left tarsometatarsus without trochlea IV, MNHNCu 75.4910 (Suárez 2020 a: 28, fig. 10 F [anterior], G [medial], H [posterior]). Collected in San Felipe I on 14 May 2009 by WS and Stephen Díaz Franco. Type locality. — Las Breas de San Felipe (MLB), c. 5.5 km west of the town of Martí, San Felipe Valley, municipality of Martí, Matanzas province, Cuba (Suárez 2020 a: 28; for description of this deposit see Iturralde-Vinent et al. 2000). Fig. 5.
- Scientific name
- Buteo sanfelipensis
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Genus
- Buteo
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