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  • noun Plural form of cathartid.

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  • In a novel twist, he further announced that New World vultures (vulturids, aka cathartids) were the next closest relatives of the turaco-cariamaen clade.

    Giant hoatzins of doom Darren Naish 2006

  • In a novel twist, he further announced that New World vultures (vulturids, aka cathartids) were the next closest relatives of the turaco-cariamaen clade.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

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