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Cuculiformes (Anis, Couas, Cuckoos, Ground-Cuckoos etc.)

 

Family: Cuculidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Cacomantis flabelliformis ssp. nov. 'Tonga' -   Holocene? Lifuka & 'Uiha, Tonga Extinct Access
             
Carpococcyx viridis Salvadori, 1879 Sumatran ground-cuckoo, Sumatran ground cuckoo - Sumatra, Indonesia Rediscovered Access
             
Centropus colossus Baird, 1985 Colossal cuckoo Late Pleistocene South Australia (south-eastern), Australia Extinct Access
             
Centropus phasianinus mui Mason, McKean & Dudzinski, 1984 Timor pheasant coucal - Timor, Indonesia Rediscovered Access
             
Centropus toulou assumptionis Nicoll, 1906 Assumption Island coucal 1906 Assumption Island, Seychelles Extinct Access
             
Coua berthae
Goodman & Ravoavy, 1993 Bertha’s coua ? Madagascar Extinct Access
 
           
Coua cristata maxima Milon, 1950 Large crested coua ? Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Coua delalandei Temminck, 1827 Delalande’s coua, Snail-eating coua, Delande's Madagascar coucal, Delande's coucal 1834 Ile Sainte Marie (=Nosy Boraha), Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Coua primaeva Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, 1895 Ancient coua ? Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Crotophaga sulcirostris pallidula Bangs and Pernard, 1921 Los Cabos groove-billed ani, Cabo San Lucas groove-billed ani pre-1922 Baja California, Mexico Missing Access
             
Eudynamys sp. 'Henderson Island'
- Henderson (Island) cuckoo/koel Holocene? Henderson Island, Pitcairn Islands Extinct Access
 
           
Geococcyx californianus conklingi Howard, 1931 Conkling's roadrunner, Conkling's greater roadrunner Holocene New Mexico & Texas, USA and Mexico Extinct Access
             
Nannococcyx psix Olson, 1975 St. Helena cuckoo Holocene St. Helena Extinct Access
             
Neomorphus geoffroyi dulcis Snethlage, 1927 Southeastern rufous-vented ground-cuckoo, Sthnelage's ground-cuckoo (rediscovered) Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Pachycoccyx audeberti audeberti (Schlegel, 1879) Thick-billed cuckoo (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
"Levaillant’s Black Coucal" - Levaillant’s black coucal pre-1807? South Africa Hypothetical Access

 

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