Biology:Gypinae

Short description: Subfamily of birds

Gypinae
Lappet-faced vultures (left) and a white-backed vulture
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Aegypiinae
Genera
See text.
Synonyms
Aegypiinae

Gypinae is one of two subfamilies of Old World vultures, the other being the Gypaetinae.

Species

Subfamily	Genus	Common and binomial names	Image	Range
Gypinae	Aegypius	Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus		Southwestern and central Europe, Turkey, the central Middle East, northern India , central and east Asia
		†Aegypius jinniushanensis		Formerly China
		†Aegypius prepyrenaicus		Formerly Spain
	Gyps	Griffon vulture Gyps fulvus		Mountains in southern Europe, north Africa and Asia
		White-rumped vulture Gyps bengalensis		Northern and central India , Pakistan , Nepal, Bangladesh and southeast Asia
		Rüppell's vulture Gyps rueppelli		The Sahel region of central Africa
		Indian vulture Gyps indicus		Central and peninsular India
		Slender-billed vulture Gyps tenuirostris		The Sub-Himalayan regions of India and into Southeast Asia
		Himalayan vulture Gyps himalayensis		The Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau
		White-backed vulture Gyps africanus		Savannahs of west and east Africa
		Cape vulture Gyps coprotheres		Southern Africa
	Necrosyrtes	Hooded vulture Necrosyrtes monachus		Sub-Saharan Africa
	Sarcogyps	Red-headed vulture Sarcogyps calvus		The Indian Subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in Southeast Asia
	Torgos	Lappet-faced vulture Torgos tracheliotos		Sub-Saharan Africa, the Sinai and Negev deserts and north-west Saudi Arabia
	Trigonoceps	White-headed vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis		Sub-Saharan Africa. Extinct populations have occurred in Indonesia.
	†Neogyps	†Neogyps errans		Formerly California .

† = extinct

References

• Ferguson-Lees, James; Christie, David A. (2001). Raptors of the World. Illustrated by Kim Franklin, David Mead, and Philip Burton. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-12762-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=hlIztc05HTQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2011-05-26. 
• Grimmett, Richard; Inskipp, Carol; Inskipp, Tim (1999). Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Illustrated by Clive Byers et al. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04910-6. OCLC 43578307. 
• Lerner, Heather R. L.; Mindell, David P. (November 2005). "Phylogeny of eagles, Old World vultures, and other Accipitridae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37 (2): 327–346. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.010. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 15925523. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hlerner/LM2005.pdf. Retrieved 31 May 2011. 

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