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Cotingidae 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 178386

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Phytotomidae
 
    Phytotominae
 
    Rupicolinae
 
    Cotinginae
 
  Common Name(s): Contingas [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAves  – Birds, oiseaux  
                         OrderPasseriformes  – Perching Birds, passereaux  
                            FamilyCotingidae  – Contingas  
    Direct Children:  
                               GenusAmpelioides J. Verreaux, 1867  
                               GenusAmpelion Tschudi, 1845  
                               GenusCarpodectes Salvin, 1865  
                               GenusCarpornis G. R. Gray, 1846  
                               GenusCephalopterus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809 – umbrellabird 
                               GenusConioptilon Lowery & O'Neill, 1966  
                               GenusCotinga Brisson, 1760  
                               GenusDoliornis Taczanowski, 1874  
                               GenusGymnoderus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809  
                               GenusHaematoderus Bonaparte, 1854  
                               GenusLipaugus F. Boie, 1828  
                               GenusPerissocephalus Oberholser, 1899  
                               GenusPhibalura Vieillot, 1816  
                               GenusPhoenicircus Swainson, 1832  
                               GenusPhytotoma Molina, 1782  
                               GenusPipreola Swainson, 1838  
                               GenusPorphyrolaema Bonaparte, 1854  
                               GenusProcnias Illiger, 1811  
                               GenusPyroderus G. R. Gray, 1840  
                               GenusQuerula Vieillot, 1816  
                               GenusRupicola Brisson, 1760 – cocks-of-the-rock 
                               GenusSnowornis Prum, 2001  
                               GenusXipholena Gloger, 1841  
                               GenusZaratornis Koepcke, 1954  
       

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  Source: AOU Check-List (07-2005), website (version Jul-2005)  
  Acquired: 2005   
  Notes: American Ornithologists' Union's "LIST OF THE 2,037 BIRD SPECIES (WITH SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES) KNOWN FROM THE A.O.U. CHECK-LIST AREA" (AOU Check-list, 7th edition, updated with Supplements 42-46), maintained at http://www.aou.org/   
  Reference for: Cotingidae   
       
  Source: eBird/Clements Checklist (2024), database (version 2024)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  Notes: Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, M. Smith, and C. L. Wood. 2024. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2024. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/   
  Reference for: Cotingidae, Contingas [English]   
       
  Source: IOC World Bird List (version 15.1), website (version 15.1)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Gill, F., D. Donsker, and P. Rasmussen, eds. 2025. IOC World Bird List (v 15.1. Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org [Accessed 28 Feb 2025]   
  Reference for: Cotingidae   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Cotingidae   
       
  Source: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2006.05.28, website (version 28-May-06)  
  Acquired: 2006   
  Notes: "Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource" maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net   
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