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Cathartes (vulture)
Taxonomy
Cathartes was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant. Its type is Vultur aura. It is the type genus of Cathartinae.
It was assigned to Vulturidae by Hay (1930); to Cathartinae by Amadon (1977); and to Cathartidae by Moreno and Mercerat (1891), Schultz and Howard (1935), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Vulturidae by Hay (1930); to Cathartinae by Amadon (1977); and to Cathartidae by Moreno and Mercerat (1891), Schultz and Howard (1935), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
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