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Chachalacas, Guans and Curassows (Cracidae)

Red-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cujubi) - HBW 2, p. 353

French: Pénélope cujubi German: Rotkehlguan Spanish: Pava Cuyubí
Other common names: Stripe-crowned Piping-guan (cujubi); White-headed/Natterer's Piping-guan (nattereri)

Taxonomy: Penelope cujubi Pelzeln, 1858, Pará.
All members of Pipile have been placed in genus Aburria, and previously even in Penelope. Present species forms superspecies with P. pipile and P. cumanensis, and all three often treated as conspecific, with P. pipile as species name; some authors also include the more distinct P. jacutinga, of which present species was in past considered race. Race nattereri has been considered a distinct species, or race of P. cumanensis, but sympatric with race grayi of latter in S Mato Grosso. Has hybridized in captivity with Penelo.. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Penelope cujubi Pelzeln, 1858, Pará.
All members of Pipile have been placed in genus Aburria, and previously even in Penelope. Present species forms superspecies with P. pipile and P. cumanensis, and all three often treated as conspecific, with P. pipile as species name; some authors also include the more distinct P. jacutinga, of which present species was in past considered race. Race nattereri has been considered a distinct species, or race of P. cumanensis, but sympatric with race grayi of latter in S Mato Grosso. Has hybridized in captivity with Penelope superciliaris. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • cujubi (Pelzeln, 1858) - NC Brazil S of R Amazon, from lower R Madeira to N Pará.
  • nattereri Reichenbach, 1862 - S & W Amazonia in W Brazil, up to border with Bolivia.

Sounds

1 recording
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