Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Falconiformes - (Family) Falconidae

Original position

Accipitres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Original entries

Falco subbuteo Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Falconinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1824

Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 95.

Alternative positions

Accipitres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 124.
Falconidae (Family) Vigors, 1824	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 125.

Historical positions

Falconinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1824	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 95.
Falconidae (Family) Vigors, 1824	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 125.
Falconidae (Family) Vigors, 1824	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 370.
Falconidae (Family) Vigors, 1824	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 977. [rough position]
Falconinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1824	Ref: E. Mayr & G.W. Cottrell, 1979
Falconiformes (Order) Sharpe, 1874	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Falconinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1824	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1968): 587.
Falconinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1824	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1964: 290.
Accipitres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 117, 124.
Accipitres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 83, 88.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	38s;92ss; ‡1s; †2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 11 May 2015	[38s;92ss]
2003	E.C. Dickinson: 97	[38s;92ss]
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	[38s]
1991 (1990)	C.M. Perrins	[38s]
1758	C. Linnaeus	[26s]