Trinidad Piping Guan
Pipile pipile(Jacquin, JF, 1784)
English (US) Trinidad Piping Guan
The Trinidad Piping Guan (Pipile pipile) 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: forest of northeastern Trinidad (endangered)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pipile pipile
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Trinidad Piping Guan
- Described by
- (Jacquin, JF, 1784)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Crax pipile
- Described by
- (Jacquin, JF, 1784)
- Type locality
- Orinoco River near Cumand; locality probably erroneous.
- Original description
- Beyträge zur Geschichte der Vögel p.26 pl.11
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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