Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Scaled Ground Cuckoo, Scaled Ground-Cuckoo
Common Names in French:
Géocoucou Ècaillé
Common Names in German:
Schuppengrundkuckuck
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest • Zoogeographic Region: Para • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: High
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Birds
- Subclass:
Neornithes
()
- Gadow, 1893
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
()
- Superorder:
Cuculimorphae
()
- Order:
Cuculiformes
()
- Wagler, 1830
- Cuckoos
- Infraorder:
Cuculides
()
-
- Parvorder:
Cuculida
()
- Superfamily:
Cuculoidea
()
- Vigors, 1825
- Family:
Cuculidae
()
- Vigors, 1825
- Genus:
Neomorphus
()
- Gloger, 1827
- Specific name:
squamiger
- Todd, 1925
- Scientific name: - Neomorphus squamiger Todd, 1925
- Specific name:
squamiger
- Todd, 1925
- Genus:
Neomorphus
(
- Family:
Cuculidae
(
- Superfamily:
Cuculoidea
(
- Parvorder:
Cuculida
(
- Infraorder:
Cuculides
(
- Order:
Cuculiformes
(
- Superorder:
Cuculimorphae
(
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
(
- Subclass:
Neornithes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 04-Nov-2006
Similar Species
Members of the genus Neomorphus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:
N. geoffroyi (Rufous-Vented Ground-Cuckoo) · N. geoffroyi aequatorialis · N. geoffroyi australis · N. geoffroyi dulcis · N. geoffroyi geoffroyi (Rufous-Vented Ground-Cuckoo) · N. geoffroyi maximiliani · N. geoffroyi salvini · N. geoffroyi squamiger · N. pucheranii (Red-Billed Ground-Cuckoo) · N. pucheranii lepidophanes · N. pucheranii pucheranii (Red-Billed Ground-Cuckoo) · N. radiolosus (Banded Ground-Cuckoo) · N. rufipennis (Rufous-Winged Ground-Cuckoo) · N. salvini · N. squamiger (Scaled Ground-Cuckoo)
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Further Reading
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
- Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Neomorphus squamiger. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3853652
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-554799
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554799
- IUCN ID: 14537
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 8072
