Species profile
Trogon muriciensis
Trogon muriciensis
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Type material: Holotype: MZUSP 112768 (Fig. 7), adult male (testes 2.0 × 2.0 mm, no bursa fabricii, skull 100 % ossified, no moult). Voice-recorded and collected in the montane forest of the Estação Ecológica de Murici, Alagoas, Brazil (090 12 ’ 46 ’’ S / 350 52 ’ 37 ’’ W, 583 m a. s. l.) by Luís Fábio Silveira on 05. x. 2019. Prepared by Luís Fábio Silveira. Paratype: MN 33853, subadult male (testes subequal in size, skull 100 % ossified, second prebasic molt). Collected in forest midstory of the Estação Ecológica de Murici, Alagoas, Brazil (090 15 ’ S / 350 50 ’ W, 550 m a. s. l.) by Dante Martins Teixeira on 19. ix. 1983.
- Scientific name
- Trogon muriciensis
- Family
- Trogonidae
- Order
- Trogoniformes
- Genus
- Trogon
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Related species in Trogonidae
- Amazonian Trogon (Trogon ramonianus)
- Baird's Trogon (Trogon bairdii)
- Bar-tailed Trogon (Apaloderma vittatum)
- Bare-cheeked Trogon (Apaloderma aequatoriale)
- Black-headed Trogon (Trogon melanocephalus)
- Black-Tailed Trogon (Trogon melanurus)
- Black-throated Trogon (Trogon rufus)
- Blue-crowned Trogon (Trogon curucui)