Haliaeetus is a genus of four species of , closely related to the sea eagles in the genus Icthyophaga.
Taxonomy
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.
The genus name is from
Latin haliaetus or
haliaetos meaning "sea-eagle" or "osprey".
This genus includes the following four species:
