| a chicken-sized crane precursor from the early oligocene of france. | a skeleton of a chicken-sized crane precursor is described from the lower oligocene of the lubéron in southern france. parvigrus pohli gen. et sp. nov. is the most substantial paleogene fossil record of the grues (aramidae [limpkin] + gruidae [cranes]), and among its oldest representatives. the fossil species is classified in the new taxon parvigruidae, which is shown to be the sister group of extant grues. it is the first fossil record of a stem lineage representative of the grues and, among ot ... | 2005 | 16052357 |
| host preference of the arbovirus vector culex erraticus (diptera: culicidae) at sonso lake, cauca valley department, colombia. | culex erraticus (dyar & knab) is a competent vector of eastern equine encephalitis virus and subtype ic venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, and both st. louis encephalitis virus and west nile virus have been isolated from field-collected specimens. previous bloodmeal analysis studies have shown this species to be a generalist, feeding on a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. this behavior can bridge arboviral transmission across different vertebrate groups. our study examined ... | 2012 | 23025191 |
| organochlorine residues and shell thicknesses in eggs of the clapper rail, common gallinule, purple gallinule, and limpkin (class aves), eastern and southern united states, 1972-74. | organochlorine residues and shell thicknesses were surveyed in eggs of the clapper rail (rallus longirostris), purple gallinule (porphyrula martinica), common gallinule (gallinula chloropas), and limpkin (aramus guarauna) from the eastern and southern united states. clapper rail eggs were collected during 1972-73 in new jersey, virginia, and south carolina. during 1973-74, gallinule eggs were collected in florida, south carolina, and louisiana, and limpkin eggs were collected in florida. egg con ... | 1980 | 6780971 |
| phylogeny of "core gruiformes" (aves: grues) and resolution of the limpkin-sungrebe problem. | opinions on the systematic relationships of birds in the avian order gruiformes have been as diverse as the families included within it. despite ongoing debate over monophyly of the order and relationships among its various members, recent opinion has converged on the monophyly of a "core" group of five families classified as the suborder grues: the rails (rallidae), the cranes (gruidae), the limpkin (aramidae), the trumpeters (psophiidae), and the finfoots (heliornithidae). we present dna seque ... | 2007 | 17419074 |
| limpkin, sweetwater preserve, gainesville, florida. | | 2019 | 31157836 |
| primary molt in gruiforms and simpler molt summary tables. | molt summary tables reveal the sequence and mode of flight-feather replacement and how these feathers are divided into independent replacement series. tables for summarizing molt are relatively new, and the rules for generating them were first formally illustrated using data from a temperate passerine. however, this first illustration failed to address (i) species with primaries divided into more than one replacement series, (ii) species with stepwise primary replacement, which almost always inv ... | 2018 | 30210940 |