Spix's guan

Spix's guan
In Manú National Park, Peru
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Cracidae
Genus: Penelope
Species:
P. jacquacu
Binomial name
Penelope jacquacu
Spix, 1825
Subspecies
  • P. j. jacquacu (Spix, 1825)
    Spix's guan
  • P. j. orienticola (Todd, 1932)
  • P. j. speciosa (Todd, 1915)
  • P. j. granti (Berlepsch, 1908)
    Grant's guan

Spix's guan (Penelope jacquacu) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae. It is "the prototypical cracid of the Amazonian lowlands."[2] The common name commemorates the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (1782-1826).[3]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Penelope jacquacu". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22678386A92771552. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678386A92771552.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ del Hoyo, J. and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Spix's Guan (Penelope jacquacu), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.spigua1.01
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 319.