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Haliaeetus

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Haliaeetus
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Haliaeetus is a genus of four species of eagles, closely related to the sea eagles in the genus Ichthyophaga.

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The genus Haliaeetus was introduced in 1809 by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny to accommodate a single species, the "L'aigle de mer" with the binomial name Haliaeetus nisus. This is the type species. Savigny's binomial name is now regarded as a junior synonym of Falco albicilla (the white-tailed eagle) that had been described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.[1][2] The genus name is from Latin haliaetus or haliaetos meaning "sea-eagle" or "osprey".[3]

This genus includes the following four species:[4]

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