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Of or pertaining to birds of the taxonomic family Cracidae. examples
plural cracids
(zoology) Any bird of the family Cracidae. quotations
Indeed, if anything it[the chachalaca] is further from the Galliformes than the duck; but because of the slight uncertainties in the method Prager and Wilson argued for a three-way split between ducks, cracids, and non-cracid galliforms.
1982 May 20, Jeremy Charfas, “Proving the pattern of life”, in New Scientist, number 1306, page 485
Cracraft (1973b, p. 507) asserted that Gallinuloides was closer to phasianids than cracids, but never presented evidence to substantiate his claim.
2012, Storrs L. Olson, “Chapter 2: The Fossil Record of Birds”, in Donald Farner, editor, Avian Biology, volume 3, page 115
Two of the five Galliform families, the cracids (guans, curassows and chachalacas) and the New World quails, are confined to the Americas, with most species in Central and especially South America.
2013, Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash, Robert Still, The World's Rarest Birds, page 278