Species profile
Buteogallus royi
Buteogallus royi
Quick answer
Holotype. — Left tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4909 (Suárez 2020 a: 20, figs. 9 C [anterior], 10: A [anterior], B [medial], C [posterior]). Collected in San Felipe I, C area, on 12 May 2009 by WS and Stephen Díaz Franco. Type locality. — Las Breas de San Felipe (MLB), c. 5.5 km west of Martí, San Felipe Valley, municipality of Martí, Matanzas province, Cuba (Suárez 2020 a: 21; for description of this deposit see Iturralde-Vinent et al. 2000). Fig. 5. Other material. — Ulna: distal third of right, MNHNCu 75.4737, San Felipe II (Suárez 2020 a: 21, fig. 10: D [dorsal], E [ventral]).
- Scientific name
- Buteogallus royi
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Genus
- Buteogallus
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