Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hoactzin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A remarkable South American bird (
Opisthocomus cristatus ); the crested touraco. By some zoölogists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).
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- noun Alternative form of
hoatzin .
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Examples
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Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation.
Giant hoatzins of doom Darren Naish 2006
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Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) resolved using mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) resolved using mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Avian richness and diversity are high, and shares affinites with the Guyana Highlands and northern Andes (cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola) as well as the Amazonian lowlands (hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin).
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Opisthocomus hoazin [embryo (above) and adult Hoatzin hands shown below].
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Two hoatzins (Opisthocomus hoazin) on Cocha Blanco (White Lake) in the Peruvian Amazon near Blanquillo.
a deep breath WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2009
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Two hoatzins (Opisthocomus hoazin) on Cocha Blanco (White Lake) in the Peruvian Amazon near Blanquillo.
Archive 2009-11-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2009
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Chatterjee in The Rise of Birds) was coined (so far as I can tell) by Johann Illiger in 1811 and thus post-dates Statius Muller’s 1776 publication of the name Phasianus hoazin (that’s right - the hoatzin was originally described as a type of pheasant).
Giant hoatzins of doom Darren Naish 2006
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Chatterjee in The Rise of Birds) was coined (so far as I can tell) by Johann Illiger in 1811 and thus post-dates Statius Muller’s 1776 publication of the name Phasianus hoazin (that’s right - the hoatzin was originally described as a type of pheasant).
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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