Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Opisthocomiformes > Opisthocomidae > Opisthocomus > Opisthocomus hoazin

Opisthocomus hoazin (Hoatzin)

Synonyms: Phasianus spec (pro parte)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
35
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
54
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 68.0157
EDGE Score: 4.23433
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.534 lbs (696 g)
Female Weight [3]  1.748 lbs (793 g)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  80 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [4]  31 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil No

Emblem of

Guyana

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Nonnapsylla rothschildi rothschildi[5]
Polygenis dendrobius[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Domínguez-Bello, MG, F. Michelangeli, MC Ruiz, A. Garcia, and E. Rodriguez. 1994. Ecology of the folivorous hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) on the Venezuelan plains. Auk 111:643-651
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0