Crestless Curassow
Mitu tomentosum(Spix, JB, 1825)
English (US) Crestless Curassow
The Crestless Curassow (Mitu tomentosum) 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: Guyana to southern Venezuela, eastern Colombia, and adjacent northwestern BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Mitu tomentosum
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Crestless Curassow
- Described by
- (Spix, JB, 1825)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Crax tomentosa
- Described by
- (Spix, JB, 1825)
- Type locality
- 'in Sylvis paludosis fl. Nigri prope pagum Barcellonam.'
- Original description
- Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX (etc.) 2 p.49 pl.63
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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