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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Anhimidae — the horned screamer.

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Examples

  • Also a great variety of tropical marine birds including rufescent tiger-heron (Tigrisoma lineatum), wood stork (Mycteria americana), and horned screamer (Anhima cornuta) are just a few species present in this ecoregion, not to mention invertebrates such as shrimp, crabs and mollusks.

    Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves 2008

  • Notable are horned screamer Anhima cornuta, Orinoco goose Neochen jubata, harpy eagle, black and white hawk-eagle Spizastur melanoleucusCrax globulosa (VU). and wattled curassow

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • There are bird species with restricted distribution such as the wattled curassow Crax globulosa (VU), and the horned screamer Anhima cornuta.

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • Anhima cornuta the spikes are triangular in cross-section and thus equipped with three sharp keels.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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