Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in Dutch:
Mesbekpauwies
Common Names in English:
Alagoas Curassow, Razor-Billed Curassow
Common Names in French:
Hocco mitou
Common Names in Spanish:
Pauj? de Alagoas, Pauj? Menor
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
It was apparently confined to lowland primary forest
, where it was
known to take fruit of Phyllanthus, Eugenia and "mangabeira".
It lays
two or three eggs
in captivity, with one female breeding
for the first time when she was two years old2.
[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Galloanserimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Galliformes
()
- Temminck, 1820
- Order:
Galliformes
(
- Superorder:
Galloanserimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Mitu mitu (Linnaeus, 1766)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Mitu
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. mitu (Razor-Billed Curassow) · M. salvini (SalvinÌs Curassow) · M. tomentosa (Lesser Razor-Billed Curassow) · M. tomentosum (Crestless Curassow) · M. tuberosa (Razor-Billed Curassow) · M. tuberosum (Razor-Billed Curassow)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 41.
- A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Brazil, by Charles E. Hellmayr. 12 1929 Chicago, 1929. url p. 472.
- Annotated CITES Appendices and Reservations CITES url p. 70.
- Birds of northeastern Peru / Melvin A. Traylor. 35 1958 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 93.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 101, p. 75, p. 95.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 88 1941 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 118.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History and including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and othe 13 1942 Chicago, 1918- url p. 115, p. 116, p. 120.
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 485.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 10.
- Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 136, p. 158, p. 196, p. 52, p. 96.
- Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 109, p. 137, p. 146.
- Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 82.
- IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 100, p. 46.
- Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 15, p. 808.
- Ornithological gazetteer of Brazil / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. and Melvin A. Traylor, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1991. url p. 747.
- Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 14.
- Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 879, p. 880.
- Publication / Institute of Social Anthropology. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944- url p. 3.
- Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30. .. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1933-1965. url p. 101, p. 104, p. 106, p. 107, p. 71, p. 82, p. 83, p. 86, p. 95, p. 98.
- The birds of British Guiana: based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. .. / London: Bernard Quaritch. .., 1916-1921. url p. 22.
- World Checklist of Threatened Birds Nature Conservancy Council url p. 65.
Notes
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Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Mitu mitu. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2010. Mitu mitu. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 12, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 12, 2008:
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Senckenberg: Collection Aves (bird skeletons)
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 12026
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-553817
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13816389
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 553817
- IUCN ID: 223949
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 145432
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2010. Mitu mitu. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
