Aracari

Aracaris
Pale-mandibled aracari
Pteroglossus erythropygius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Ramphastidae
Genus: Pteroglossus
Illiger, 1811
Type species
Ramphastos aracari (black-necked aracari)
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

14 (incl. the saffron toucanet), see text.

Synonyms
List
  • Aracarius Rafinesque, 1815
  • Aracari Lesson, 1828
  • Grammarhynchus Gould, 1854
  • Grammatorhynchus [missp.] Bonaparte, 1854
  • Pyrosterna Bonaparte, 1854
  • Baillonius Cassin, 1868
  • Baillonicus [missp.] Klös, 1970
  • Beauharnaisius Bonaparte, 1850
  • Bauharnaisius [missp.] Bonaparte, 1850
  • Beauharnasius [missp.] Gould, 1854
  • Beauharnesius [missp.] Bonaparte, 1854
  • Beauharnisius [missp.] Sundevall, 1873
  • Ulocomus Heine, 1890

An aracari or araçari (US: /ˌɑːrəˈsɑːri/ AR-ə-SAR-ee,[1] UK: /ˌærəˈsɑːri/ ARR-ə-SAR-ee, /-ˈkɑːri/ -⁠KAR-ee)[2] is any of the medium-sized toucans that, together with the saffron toucanet, make up the genus Pteroglossus.

They are brightly plumaged and have enormous, contrastingly patterned bills. These birds are residents in forests and woodlands in the Neotropics.

  1. ^ "Aracari". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc.). Retrieved 2012-04-20.
  2. ^ "Definition for aracari". Oxford Dictionaries Online. Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2012-04-20.

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