Crax, the Glossary
Crax is a genus of curassows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds.[1]
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57 relations: Amazon basin, Ancient Greek, Andean natural region, Andes, Aridity, August von Pelzeln, Bare-faced curassow, Belem curassow, Black curassow, Blue-billed curassow, Brazilian Highlands, Carl Linnaeus, Central America, Cloaca, Colombia, Cordillera de Mérida, Cordillera Occidental (Colombia), Curassow, Depression (geology), Digital object identifier, Edward William Nelson, Ensenadan, Galliformes, Genus, Geology, Great curassow, Haldane's rule, Hybrid (biology), Late Miocene, Messinian, Mexico, Million years ago, Miocene, Mitochondrial DNA, Mitu (bird), Nocturnal curassow, Nuclear DNA, Nucleic acid sequence, Orinoco, Ornithology (journal), Osbert Salvin, Pauxi, Philip Sclater, Red-billed curassow, Robert Ridgway, Sea level, Serranía del Perijá, Sexual dimorphism, Systema Naturae, Tortonian, ... Expand index (7 more) »
- Curassows
- Extant Tortonian first appearances
Amazon basin
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Andean natural region
The Andean region, located in central Colombia, is the most populated natural region of Colombia.
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Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
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Aridity
Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
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August von Pelzeln
August von Pelzeln (10 May 1825, Prague – 2 September 1891 in Oberdöbling) was an Austrian ornithologist.
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Bare-faced curassow
The bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, curassows, etc. Crax and bare-faced curassow are curassows.
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Belem curassow
The Belem curassow (Crax fasciolata pinima) is a highly endangered subspecies of curassow endemic to Brazil. Crax and Belem curassow are curassows.
Black curassow
The black curassow (Crax alector), also known as the smooth-billed curassow and the crested curassow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. Crax and black curassow are curassows.
Blue-billed curassow
The blue-billed curassow (Crax alberti) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. Crax and blue-billed curassow are curassows.
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Brazilian Highlands
The Brazilian Highlands or Brazilian Plateau (Planalto Brasileiro) is an extensive geographical region covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all some 4,500,000 km2 (1,930,511 sq mi) or approximately half of the country's land area.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
Cloaca
A cloaca,: cloacae, is the rear orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive, reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of many vertebrate animals.
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Cordillera de Mérida
The Cordillera de Mérida is a series of mountain ranges, or massif, in northwestern Venezuela.
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Cordillera Occidental (Colombia)
The Cordillera Occidental (Western Ranges) is the lowest in elevation of the three branches of the Colombian Andes.
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Curassow
Curassows are one of the three major groups of cracid birds. Crax and Curassow are curassows.
Depression (geology)
In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.
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Digital object identifier
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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Edward William Nelson
Edward William Nelson (May 8, 1855 – May 19, 1934) was an American naturalist and ethnologist.
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Ensenadan
The Ensenadan age is a period of geologic time (1.2–0.8 Ma) within the Early Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary used more specifically with South American Land Mammal Ages.
Galliformes
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Great curassow
The great curassow (Crax rubra) is a large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests, its range extending from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Crax and great curassow are curassows.
Haldane's rule
Haldane's rule is an observation about the early stage of speciation, formulated in 1922 by the British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane, that states that if — in a species hybrid — only one sex is inviable or sterile, that sex is more likely to be the heterogametic sex.
Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
Late Miocene
The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages.
Messinian
The Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
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Million years ago
Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Mitu (bird)
Mitu is a genus of curassows, large birds in the family Cracidae. Crax and Mitu (bird) are curassows.
Nocturnal curassow
The nocturnal curassow (Nothocrax urumutum) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows.
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Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA (nDNA), or nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid, is the DNA contained within each cell nucleus of a eukaryotic organism.
Nucleic acid sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of bases within the nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.
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Orinoco
The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at. Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers ca 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and the 35% in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The nevertheless high volume flow (39,000 m3/s at delta) of the Orinoco can be explained by the high precipitation in almost the entire catchment area (ca 2,300 mm/a).
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Ornithology (journal)
Ornithology, formerly The Auk and The Auk: Ornithological Advances, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).
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Osbert Salvin
Osbert Salvin (25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879–1915) with Frederick DuCane Godman.
Pauxi
The genus Pauxi consists of the three species of helmeted curassows, terrestrial black fowl with ornamental casque on their heads. Crax and Pauxi are Extant Tortonian first appearances.
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Philip Sclater
Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an English lawyer and zoologist.
Red-billed curassow
The red-billed curassow or red-knobbed curassow (Crax blumenbachii) is an endangered species of cracid that is endemic to lowland Atlantic Forest in the states of Espírito Santo, Bahia and Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil.
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Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics.
Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
Serranía del Perijá
The Serranía del Perijá, Cordillera de Perijá or Sierra de Perijá is a mountain range, an extension of the eastern Andean branch (Cordillera Oriental), in northern South America, between Colombia and Venezuela, ending further north in the Guajira Desert, a total distance of about.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
Tortonian
The Tortonian is in the geologic time scale an age or stage of the late Miocene that spans the time between.
Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
Uquian
The Uquian age is a period of geologic time (3.0–1.5 Ma) within the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs of the Neogene used more specifically with South American Land Mammal Ages.
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Wattled curassow
The wattled curassow (Crax globulosa) is a threatened member of the family Cracidae, the curassows, guans, and chachalacas. Crax and wattled curassow are curassows.
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (25 March 1863 – 26 July 1924) was a Scottish ornithologist.
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Yellow-knobbed curassow
The yellow-knobbed curassow (Crax daubentoni) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. Crax and yellow-knobbed curassow are curassows.
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Zanclean
The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene.
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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See also
Curassows
- Alagoas curassow
- Bare-faced curassow
- Belem curassow
- Black curassow
- Blue-billed curassow
- Crax
- Crestless curassow
- Curassow
- Great curassow
- Helmeted curassow
- Mitu (bird)
- Salvin's curassow
- Wattled curassow
- Yellow-knobbed curassow
Extant Tortonian first appearances
- American alligator
- Canis
- Ceratotherium
- Crax
- Crossbill
- Dolphin
- Gibbon
- Neobalaenidae
- Parachromis dovii
- Parachromis managuensis
- Pauxi
- Prion (bird)
- Rotulidae
- Spiny dogfish
- Stargazer (fish)
- Syrmaticus
- Tinamou
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crax
Also known as Hocco.
, Type species, Uquian, Wattled curassow, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Yellow-knobbed curassow, Zanclean, 10th edition of Systema Naturae.