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What does Ramphastidae stand for?

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What family is the toucan in?

Ramphastidae.


What is the Latin name for the toucan?

The scientific name for a toucan is "Ramphastos sulfuratus" or "Aulacorhynchus Caeruleogularis." Look it up on the internet if you don't know which one to chose.


What family is a toucan part of?

A toucan is part of the ramphastidae family.


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Ramphastidae is the scientific name for the toucan.


How are toocans classified?

Toucans belong to the Animalia kingdom and the chordata phylum. They also belong to the aves class and the ramphastidae family.


Do toucans come from a tropical climate?

Toucans (or ramphastidae)are found exclusively in the New World tropics (and in zoos!): http://montereybay.com/creagrus/toucans.html


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Toucans are members of the family Ramphastidae of near passerine birds from the Neotropics. The Ramphastidae family is most closely related to the American barbets. They are brightly marked and have large, often colorful bills. The family includes five genera and about forty different species. The name of this bird group is derived from the Tupi word tukana, via Portuguese.


What type of group does the Toucan belong to?

toucans are a family of birds, rather than one individual species. The scientific word for the toucan family is ramphastidae, and toucans are sometimes called ramphastids. The toucan family includes aracaris, green toucanets, mountain toucans, typical (or black) toucans, and dichromatic toucanets. Within each of those groups (which are non-scientific name for genus) are several species.


How do emperor tamarins protect themselves from predators?

Toucans protect themselves by using their beak. They also call family or other members of the group by using a sound. Toucans are members of the Ramphastidae family.


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Toucans are members of the family Ramphastidae of near passerine birds from the Neotropics. The Ramphastidae family is most closely related to the American barbets. They are brightly marked and have large, often colorful bills. The family includes five genera and about forty different species. The name of this bird group is derived from the Tupi word tukana, via Portuguese. The family includes toucans, aracaris and toucanets; more distant relatives include various families of barbets and woodpeckers in the suborder Pici.


Classification of toucans?

Toucans are in: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Ramphastidae (wikipedia is my source for the above) Toucans are a family of birds, also known as ramphastids and within that family there are several genus, and within each genus there are several species. The five toucan genus (and some examples of species of toucans) are: Aulacorhynchus - the green toucanets, such as the emerald toucanet Selenidera - the often called dichromatic toucanets such as the Guyana toucanet Andigena - the mountain toucans, including the plate-billed mountain toucan Pteroglossus - the aracaris, including the green aracari Ramphastos - the black toucans, including the toco toucan In case you hear about there being six genus in family ramphastidae: The saffron toucanet used to be placed in its own genus (Baillonius), so for a while there were believed to be six genus in family ramphastidae. It is now recognized that the saffron toucanet is in fact an aracari, and belongs in gneus Pteroglossus.


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