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Definition of Genus chauna
1. Noun. Crested screamers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Anhimidae, Family Anhimidae
Member holonyms: Crested Screamer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chauna
Literary usage of Genus chauna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"This genus Chauna was established by Illiger for the purpose of separating from
the Kamichi, ... and that the genus Chauna should be obliterated. ..."
2. Contributions Toward a Monograph of the Insects of the Lepidopterous Family by John Bernhard Smith (1895)
"305 On the species of the genus Chauna. Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, pp.
74-76, pi. xi. The diagnoses of the three species Chauna cha- varia, ..."
3. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"... species found in Amazonia and the interior of Brazil) the present family
contains only one other genus—Chauna—in which the head carries a feather-crest ..."
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