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raptores

/ræpˈtɔː.riːz/

Traduction: Terme taxinomique désuet utilisé dans les anciennes classifications, regroupant à tort les oiseaux de proie diurnes (falconiformes) et nocturnes (strigiformes).

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/ræpˈtɔː.riːz/C2formalscientific
  • frTerme taxinomique désuet utilisé dans les anciennes classifications, regroupant à tort les oiseaux de proie diurnes (falconiformes) et nocturnes (strigiformes).

A former taxonomic term used in older classifications that erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes.

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  1. Former taxonomic groupC2formalscientific

    A term used in older biological classifications that erroneously grouped together birds of prey from the orders Falconiformes (diurnal raptors) and Strigiformes (owls).

    frRaptores (groupe taxinomique obsolète)

    • In historical taxonomy, the order Raptores included both eagles and owls.
    • The classification Raptores is no longer used by modern ornithologists.
    • Early naturalists placed hawks and owls together under Raptores.