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The Alagoas Curassow, Mitu mitu is a large, up to 89cm long, pheasant-like bird with a whitish-tipped red bill, black glossed purplish blue plumage, chestnut under belly, reddish brown iris and fourteen pale brown-tipped tail feathers. It has a unique bare greyish crescent-shaped ear patch, not found in other curassows. The female is a slightly lighter than male. The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive. ...
The Dodo, shown here in illustration, is an often-cited[1] example of extinction. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera Subregnum Eumetazoa Placozoa Orthonectida Rhombozoa Radiata (unranked) Ctenophora Cnidaria Bilateria (unranked) Acoelomorpha Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata Hemichordata Echinodermata Chaetognatha Superphylum Ecdysozoa Kinorhyncha Loricifera Priapulida Nematoda Nematomorpha Onychophora Tardigrada Arthropoda Superphylum Platyzoa Platyhelminthes Gastrotricha Rotifera Acanthocephala Gnathostomulida Micrognathozoa Cycliophora Superphylum Lophotrochozoa Sipuncula Nemertea Phoronida Bryozoa Entoprocta Brachiopoda...
{{{subdivision_ranks}}} See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
Orders Many - see section below. ...
Families Megapodidae Numididae Odontophoridae Phasianidae Meleagrididae Tetraonidae Cracidae Mesitornithidae The Galliformes is an order of birds containing the turkeys, grouse, quails and pheasants. ...
Genera Ortalis Penelope Pipile Aburria Chamaepetes Penelopina Oreophasis Nothocrax Mitu Crax Pauxi The chachalacas, guans and curassows are birds in the family Cracidae. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...
Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[1] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
Genera Ithaginis Catreus Rheinartia Crossoptilon Lophura Argusianus Pucrasia Syrmaticus Chrysolophus Phasianus †See also partridge, quail Pheasants are a group of large birds in the order Galliformes. ...
The beak—otherwise known as the bill or rostrum—is an external anatomical structure which serves as the mouth in some animals. ...
The human iris The iris is the green/grey/brown area. ...
The chachalacas, guans and curassows are birds in the family Cracidae. ...
The rare Alagoas Curassow was first mentioned by German naturalist Georg Marcgraf in 1648. Because of lack of information and specimen, it was considered a same species with the closely related Razor-billed Curassow, until after its rediscovery in 1951 in the Alagoas lowland forests, Brazil. The diet consists mainly of fruits. They can reach an age of more than 24 years in captivity. Flag of Alagoas See other Brazilian States Capital Maceió Largest City Maceió Area 27 818 km² Population - Total - Density 2 822 621 101. ...
Due to ongoing habitat lost, overhunting and very small population size, the Alagoas Curassow is evaluated as Extinct in the Wild on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The last wild Alagoas Curassow was seen and killed in 1984, and possibly 1987 or 1988. The captive population has been extensively hybridized with the Razor-billed Curassow, and there are a few dozen purebred birds left which are being maintained and bred in two privately-owned professional aviaries mainly due to lack of official interest owing to the long-standing doubt about the taxon's validity. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List and Red Data List), created in 1963, is the worlds most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. ...
// In biology, hybrid has two meanings. ...
The Alagoas Curassow is protected under Brazillian law and is listed on Appendix I of CITES. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement between Governments, drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). ...
References - BirdLife International (2000): Alagoas Curassow. In: Threatened Birds of the World: 132. Lynx Edicions & BirdLife International, Barcelona & Cambridge, UK. ISBN 0946888396
- BirdLife International (2004). Mitu mitu. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 24 Oct 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is extinct in the wild.
- Silveira, Luís Fábio; Olmos, Fábio & Long, Adrian J. (2004): Taxonomy, history, and status of Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu (Linnaeus, 1766), the world’s most threatened cracid. Ararajuba 12(2): 125-132. PDF fulltext
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List and Red Data List), created in 1963, is the worlds most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. ...
The World Conservation Union or International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ...
External links - BirdLife Species Factsheet
- IUCN Red List
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