Taxon profile

family

chachalacas, curassows and guans
Cracidae Rafinesque, 1815

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Chordata - chordates » class Aves - birds » order Galliformes » suborder Craci

Images

Nothocrax urumutum - Nocturnal Curassow

Author: Vladimír Motyčka

Pipile pipile - Trinidad Piping Guan

Author: Vladimír Motyčka

Crax globulosa - Wattled Curassow

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Included taxa

Number of records: 14

genus Aburria Reichenbach, 1853 - Wattled Guan

genus Chamaepetes Wagler, 1832

genus Crax Linnaeus, 1758

genus Mitu Lesson, 1831

genus Nothocrax Burmeister, 1856 - Nocturnal Curassow

genus Oreophasis Gray, 1844 - Horned Guans

genus Ortalis Merrem, 1786 - Chachalacas

genus Pauxi Temminck, 1813

genus Penelope Merrem, 1786

genus Penelopina Reichenbach, 1861 - Highland Guan

genus Pipile Bonaparte, 1856 - Piping-guans

Fossil taxa

genus Boreortalis Brodkorb, 1954 ^†

genus Palaeonossax Wetmore, 1956 ^†

genus Procrax Tordoff & Macdonald, 1957 ^† ^inc.sed.

Links and literature

Gill F., Donsker D. & Rasmussen P. (eds): IOC World Bird List 11.1 [http://www.worldbirdnames.org/] [as Cracidae]
Data retrieved on: 3 December 2021

Hudec K. et al. (2003): Soustava a české názvosloví ptáků světa, Muzeum Komenského v Přerově. 462 pp. [as Cracidae Rafinesque, 1815]

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