Species
- Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus
- White-rumped Vulture, Gyps bengalensis
- Rüppell's Vulture, Gyps rueppellii
- Indian Vulture, Gyps indicus - formerly Long-billed Vulture
- Slender-billed Vulture, Gyps tenuirostris - formerly included in G. indicus
- Himalayan Vulture Gyps himalayensis
- White-backed Vulture, Gyps africanus
- Cape Griffon, Gyps coprotheres
A prehistoric species is known only from fossil remains found in Middle to Late Pleistocene sites all over the central and eastern Mediterranean: Gyps melitensis.
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