Cracidae
Also known as cracids
The chachalacas, guans, and curassows are birds in the family Cracidae. These are species of tropical and subtropical Central and South America. The range of one species, the plain chachalaca, just reaches southernmost parts of Texas in the United States. Two species, the Trinidad piping guan and the rufous-vented chachalaca occur on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago respectively.
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Cracidae is a family of birds that includes chachalacas, guans, and curassows, primarily found in tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America. These birds matter because they are notable members of their ecosystems, with at least one species (the plain chachalaca) even extending into the southernmost United States, and others inhabiting Caribbean islands like Trinidad and Tobago.
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Cracidae
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderGalliformes
- FamilyCracidae
凤冠雉科（学名：Cracidae）是鸡形目的一科，现存2个亚科11属。分布于中、南美洲的森林地区，一般群居。多数种类拥有冠羽，故名。 凤冠雉亚科（Cracinae） 夜冠雉属（Nothocrax） 盔嘴雉属（Mitu） 盔凤冠雉属（Pauxi） 凤冠雉属（Crax） 冠雉亚科（Penelopinae） 稚冠雉属（Ortalis） 冠雉属（Penelope） 盔凤冠雉属（Pipile） 肉垂冠雉属（Aburria） 镰翅冠雉属（Chamaepetes） 山冠雉属（Penelopina） 角冠雉属（Oreophasis） 参考资料 蓝色动物学 外部链接 Cracid Specialist Group - an origanzation of 200 'cracidologists' BirdPhotos.com - high resolution photos of most species Cracidae videos on the Internet Bird Collection Cracid sounds on xeno-canto.org 维基共享资源中相关的多媒体资源：凤冠雉科 取自“https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=凤冠雉科&oldid=25582528” 分类：鳳冠雉科 隐藏分类：本地相关图片与维基数据不同
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- Systematics and evolution
- Internal Phylogeny
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- Evolution
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- Behaviour and ecology
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The chachalacas, guans, and curassows are birds in the family Cracidae. These are species of tropical and subtropical Central and South America. The range of one species, the plain chachalaca, just reaches southernmost parts of Texas in the United States. Two species, the Trinidad piping guan and the rufous-vented chachalaca occur on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago respectively.
==Systematics and evolution== The family Cracidae was introduced (as Craxia) by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815. The Cracidae are an ancient group that were thought to be related to the Australasian mound-builders of family Megapodiidae. The two families they were sometimes united in a distinct order, Craciformes, as in Munroe and Sibley's 1993 World Checklist of Birds. However, the group is not monophyletic and more recent phylogenetic studies have found Megapodiidae and Cracidae to be successive early branching lineages of Galliformes.