White-browed Guan
Penelope jacucacaSpix, JB, 1825
English (US) White-browed Guan
The White-browed Guan (Penelope jacucaca) 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: interior northeastern Brazil (Ceará and ParaÃba to Bahia)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Penelope jacucaca
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- White-browed Guan
- Described by
- Spix, JB, 1825
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Penelope jacu-caca
- Described by
- Spix, JB, 1825
- Type locality
- Near Pogoens Encima, Bahia.
- Original description
- Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX (etc.) 2 p.53 pl.69
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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