Marail Guan (Penelope marail)
About the Marail Guan
The marail guan or Cayenne guan (Penelope marail) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. The marail guan was formally described in 1776 by the German zoologist Philipp Statius Müller under the binomial name Phasianus marail. Müller based his account on "Le Marail" from Cayenne that had been described in 1771 by the French naturalist, the Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The marail guan is now one of 15 species placed in the genus Penelope that was introduced in 1776 by the German naturalist Blasius Merrem. The specific epithet and the common name are from Marai, the Carib word for a guan. Two subspecies are recognised:
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Listed as recorded in Brazil, Venezuela in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Andean GuanPenelope montagniirecording
- Bearded GuanPenelope barbatarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.