Chachalacas, Guans and Curassows (Cracidae) - HBW 2

Crestless Curassow (Mitu tomentosa)

French: Hocco de Spix German: Samthokko Spanish: Paují Culicastaño
Other common names: Lesser Razor billed Curassow

Taxonomy: Crax tomentosa Spix, 1825, in Sylvis paludosis fl. Nigri prope pagum Barcellonam.
All members of genus form superspecies; all have been placed, together with the members of Pauxi, and less often Nothocrax, in Crax. Range meets that of M. salvini in C Colombia, without any evidence of interbreeding. Monotypic.

Distribution: Guyana, Venezuela S of R Orinoco, NW Brazil and E Colombia.