New World vulture genera are the genera of the family Cathartidae, which has five extant genera and seven extant species. One genus, Cathartes, holds three species, and each of the other four holds a single extant species. The vultures are widespread across the New World, all feed on carrion, and all have unfeathered heads to stay clean while feeding and wide wingspans for soaring. GBIF lists Cathartes with about 16 descendant taxa, Sarcoramphus with about 7, Coragyps with about 6, Vultur with about 5 and Gymnogyps with about 4, with further genera such as Plesiocathartes and Pliogyps beside them.
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Animal Diversity Web: Cathartidae
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Cathartidae is a family consisting of five extant genera and seven extant species of New World vultures.
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Cathartidae
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"canonicalName":"Sarcoramphus","vernacularName":"king vulture","authorship":"Dumeril, 1805","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Duméril, André M. C. 1805. Zoologie analytique, ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile a l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. Allais, Paris.: i-xxxii; 1-344.","numDescendants":7
Children of Cathartidae: Cathartes
"canonicalName":"Cathartes","vernacularName":"vulture","authorship":"Illiger, 1811","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium : 236","numDescendants":16
Children of Cathartidae: Coragyps
"canonicalName":"Coragyps","vernacularName":"Black Vultures","authorship":"Le Maout, 1853","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Hist. Ois., 57","numDescendants":6
Children of Cathartidae: Vultur
"canonicalName":"Vultur","vernacularName":"South American Condors","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":5
Children of Cathartidae: Gymnogyps
"canonicalName":"Gymnogyps","vernacularName":"Condors","authorship":"Lesson, 1842","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Lesson, René P. 1842. Index ornithologique. L'Écho du monde savant et l'Hermès 9: 1035-1039.","numDescendants":4
Children of Cathartidae: Plesiocathartes
"canonicalName":"Plesiocathartes","authorship":"Gaillard, 1908","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ann. Univ. Lyon, (N. S.) Sci. Méd., No. 23","numDescendants":3
Children of Cathartidae: Pliogyps
"canonicalName":"Pliogyps","authorship":"Tordoff, 1959","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Condor 61","numDescendants":2
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Gymnogyps is a genus of New World vultures in the family Cathartidae.
Wikipedia: Vultur
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Vultur is a genus of New World vulture that contains two species, an extant species, the Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) and the fossil species Vultur messii from the early Pliocene of Argentina.
Wikipedia: Cathartes
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The genus Cathartes includes medium-sized to large carrion-feeding birds in the New World vulture (Cathartidae) family.
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