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Guianan toucanet Male at Dallas World Aquarium, USA Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Ramphastidae Genus: Selenidera Species: S. piperivora Binomial name Selenidera piperivora (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Ramphastos piperivorus Pteroglossus culik Selenidera culik (Wagler ...
A major taxonomy review in 1974 resulted in 6 species in the genus Aulacorhynchus, [5] and this was adopted by virtually all later authorities. [3] [6] [7] [8] [9]In 2001, it was suggested that A. prasinus, as traditionally defined, was a species complex that should be split into 7 different species based on preliminary morphological evidence. [10]
The researchers sequenced several nuclear and mitochondrial genes from 40 toucan species, representing all recognized subgenera within the genus Ramphastos. The study found that toucans could be divided into six distinct clades, each with different bill morphologies and geographic distributions.
Black-throated toucanet Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Ramphastidae Genus: Aulacorhynchus Species: A. atrogularis Binomial name Aulacorhynchus atrogularis (Sturm, JHCF & Sturm, JW, 1841) Subspecies See text Synonyms Aulacorhynchus prasinus atrogularis Pteroglossus ...
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What is now the blue-throated toucanet was two of many subspecies of the then emerald toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus sensu lato).In 2008 the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) split 10 of those subspecies to create seven new species, one of which is the blue-throated toucanet, and retained four of them as subspecies of their current emerald toucanet sensu stricto.
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