Alagoas Curassow
Mitu mitu(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Alagoas Curassow
The Alagoas Curassow (Mitu mitu) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cracidae (Guans, Curassows, and Chachalacas) in the order Galliformes.
Range: coastal eastern Brazil (Alagoas); extinct in wildRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Mitu mitu
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct in the Wild
- English (US)
- Alagoas Curassow
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Crax Mitu
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Brazil and Guiana = northeastern Brazil, ex Marcgrave.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.270
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Rufous-headed Chachalaca
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