Malagasy crowned eagle
| Malagasy crowned eagle Temporal range: Holocene
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Extinct (1500)
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Stephanoaetus |
| Species: | †S. mahery
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| Binomial name | |
| †Stephanoaetus mahery Goodman, 1994
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The Malagasy crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus mahery), also known as the Madagascar crowned hawk-eagle, is an extinct large bird of prey endemic to Madagascar.
It has been proposed that this bird, combined with elephant bird eggs, were the source of sightings of the mythical Roc.