Species profile
Gigantohierax suarezi
Gigantohierax suarezi
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Holotype. — Left femur, MNHNCu 75.574, original number ‘ MNHNH. P- 574 ’ (Arredondo & Arredondo 2002 a: 10, figs. 1 * [anterior], 3 * A [posterior]; see Díaz-Franco 2004: 156, Herrera-Uria et al. 2015: 114). Collected 16 February 1995 by Jesús Martínez González and WS in the deposit known as El Sumidero (see Suárez 2000 b) at the type locality (Arredondo & Arredondo 2002 a: 9). The holotype was not ‘ discovered since the late 1950 s’ (contra Orihuela 2019: 60). Other material. — Femur: right lacking trochanter and condyles, SEC P- 26, at MCZ (Arredondo 1958: 12, fig. left unnumbered: top [anterior], 1964: 19, fig. left unnumbered: right [anterior], 1970 a: 4, fig. 7 [anterior], 1971: 96, fig. top left unnumbered: A, left [anterior], Arredondo & Arredondo 2002 a: 9 – 10, fig. 2 * [anterior]). Tarsometatarsus: three shaft fragments of right, WS 80120. E. Phalanges: ungual phalanx, digit I, SEC P- 31, at MCZ (Arredondo 1955: 27, fig. unnumbered *: centre [lateral], 1958: 10, fig. left unnumbered *: 2 [lateral], 12, fig. left unnumbered: middle right [lateral], 1970 a: 4, fig. 3 A [lateral], 1971: 96, fig. top left unnumbered: A, top [lateral], bottom * [lateral], Arredondo & Arredondo 2002 a: 9 – 10, fig. 4 A *: [lateral]). Type locality. — Cueva de Sandoval (ASA), c. 4 km south of Vereda Nueva, municipality of Caimito, Artemisa [formerly La Habana] province, Cuba (Arredondo & Arredondo 2002 a: 10). Fig. 6.
- Scientific name
- Gigantohierax suarezi
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Genus
- Gigantohierax
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