Aramus (bird)

Aramus Temporal range: Miocene - Recent
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Aramidae Bonaparte, 1854
Genus:	Aramus Vieillot, 1816
Species
Aramus guarauna † Aramus paludigrus

Aramus is the sole extant genus of the family Aramidae. ^[1] The limpkin (Aramus guarauna) is the only living member of this group, although other species are known from the fossil record, such as Aramus paludigrus from the Middle Miocene. ^[2]

References

1. del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Sargatal, Jordi; Christie, David A; de Juana, Eduardo, eds. (2017). "Limpkin (Aramidae)" . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. doi:10.2173/bow.aramid1.01. S2CID   241328872 . Retrieved 11 March 2017.
2. Rasmussen, Tab (1997). Kay, R.F.; Madden, R.H.; Cifelli, R.L.; Flynn, J.J. (eds.). Vertebrate paleontology in the neotropics – the Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Birds. Smithsonian Institution Press.