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Mitu tuberosum (Razor-billed Curassow)

Synonyms: Crax tuberosa; Mitu tuberosa

Wikipedia Abstract

The razor-billed curassow (Mitu tuberosum) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae. It is found throughout a large part of the Amazon Rainforest, though largely restricted to regions south of the Amazon River. Unlike other members of the genus Mitu, its crissum is deep chestnut and the tail-tip is white. The razor-billed curassow was formerly treated as a subspecies of Mitu mitu, but today this scientific name is restricted to the extremely rare Alagoas curassow.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.40055
EDGE Score: 1.48173
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.131 lbs (2.781 kg)
Female Weight [1]  5.115 lbs (2.32 kg)
Male Weight [1]  7.15 lbs (3.243 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  39.8 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Understory [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  90 %
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years
Clutch Size [3]  2
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  23 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  34 inches (86 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Clarisia racemosa[5]
Lecointea amazonica[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ateles chamek (Chamek spider monkey)1
Mitu mitu (Alagoas Curassow)1
Mitu salvini (Salvin's Curassow)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 3Use and conservation of Cracidae (Aves: Galliformes) in the Peruvian Amazon, Alfredo J. Begazo and Richard E. Bodmer, ORYX VOL 32 NO 4 OCTOBER 1998, pp. 301-309
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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