Scaled Ground Cuckoo

Scaled Ground Cuckoo
Scaled Ground Cuckoo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Subfamily: Neomorphinae
Genus: Neomorphus
Species: N. squamiger
Binomial name
Neomorphus squamiger
Todd, 1925
Synonyms

Neomorphus geoffroyi squamiger

The Scaled Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus squamiger) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is endemic to the Amazon Rainforest near the Tapajos River in Brazil, but much confusion exists over the exact limits of its range and the features useful for separating it from the very similar Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (the breast-markings of the Amazonian taxa are known to vary clinally). Consequently, it has sometimes been considered a subspecies of the Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo.

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