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Category:Cathartidae

From Opus

Family:Cathartidae

[edit] Description

New World vultures and condors.

[edit] Taxonomy

Cathartidae is a family in the order Accipitriformes (formerly included in Falconiformes). Some authorities place it in its own order, Cathartiformes, after it was misplaced in the order Ciconiiformes for some time.

Family Cathartidae view • edit

Genus Coragyps view • edit
C. atratus Black Vulture

Genus Cathartes view • edit
C. aura Turkey Vulture
C. burrovianus Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
C. melambrotus Greater Yellow-headed Vulture

Genus Gymnogyps view • edit
G. californianus California Condor

Genus Vultur view • edit
V. gryphus Andean Condor

Genus Sarcoramphus view • edit
S. papa King Vulture

[edit] References

SACC proposal to remove Cathartidae from Ciconiiformes summarizing the evidence for and against.


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