Piping-Guans
Pipile
The piping guans are a bird genus, Pipile, in the Cracidae family. A recent study (Grau et al. 2005), evaluating mtDNA, osteology and biogeography data (Grau et al., 2005) concluding that the wattled guan belongs in the same genus as these and is a hypermelanistic piping guan. Thus, Pipile became a junior synonym of Aburria, though this conclusion was not accepted by the South American Checklist Committee (Remsen et al., 2007), or evaluated by the IOC,...
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species
Black-fronted Piping-Guan
speciesPipile jacutinga
Blue-throated Piping-Guan
speciesPipile cumanensis
White-throated Piping-Guan
speciesPipile grayi
Red-throated Piping-Guan
speciesPipile cujubi
Trinidad Piping-Guan
speciesPipile pipile
Red-throated × White-throated Piping-Guan
hybridPipile cujubi × grayi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 2105.