Scaled Ground Cuckoo
Neomorphus squamigerTodd, WEC, 1925
English (US) Scaled Ground Cuckoo
The Scaled Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus squamiger) 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 Cuculidae (Cuckoos) in the order Cuculiformes.
Range: central Amazonian Brazil (south side of the Amazon River on both banks of the lower Rio Tapajós, eastward to the east bank of Rio Xingu, and southward to upper Tapajós drainage)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Neomorphus squamiger
- Family
- Cuculidae (Cuckoos)
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Scaled Ground Cuckoo
- Described by
- Todd, WEC, 1925
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Todd, WEC, 1925
- Type locality
- Colonia do Mojuy, Santarem, Brazil.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 38 p.112
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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