Talk:Greater Spotted Eagle
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This species and its relatives, the Lesser and Indian Spotted Eagles, stand apart from all other true eagles. They should probably better be removed from the genus Aquila and united with the Long-crested Eagle in Lophaetus, or all four should be moved to Ictinaetus[citation needed].
I don't think this kind of taxonomic speculation has its place in a encyclopeadia. Taxonomic classification may be imperfect but wikipedia is not the place to criticise it. "should be": is that a personal wish of the author?(See WP:AWT) If recent research has shown that these species are genetically similar, then this could be mentioned in this article but only if it is backed with reliable sources. Unless the author cares to justify his statement i'll be removing it.
Raoulduke47 17:58, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
