Pernis

The name of the genus is due Cuvier (1816), after the species name Pernis apivorus (Linné 1758). The name πέρνης (pérnēs) is used by Aristotle of a bird of prey (Cuvier 1831:242)

Pernis m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Accipitridae.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Accipitriformes – order; Accipitridae – family; Perninae - subfamily

• (genus): Pernis apivorus - type species; for other species see Pernis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN
• Georges Cuvier, Henry M'Murtrie (trans.), The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization (1831).

• Pernis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pernis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Pernis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Pernis at National Center for Biotechnology Information

First attested as pernesse in 1250. Compound of Middle Dutch perre (“enclosed space”) and nesse (“headland, spit”).

• Hyphenation: Per‧nis

Pernis n

1. A village and former municipality of Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

• Pernissenaar

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “pernis”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎ (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN