Genus Cathartes (Noun)
Meaning
Type genus of the Cathartidae: turkey vultures.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Cathartes is the type genus of the family Cathartidae, comprising four species of turkey vultures.
- Genus Cathartes comprises the true vultures found throughout the Americas, in North, Central and South America.
- One characteristic feature that is associated with genus Cathartes, among turkey vultures is a hairless head, useful in staying clean during foraging for food.
- Another representative member of the genus Cathartes includes the greater yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes melambrotus) also widely dispersed.
- Classification includes 6 families under this bird and about four main categories such as Cathartes the true New-World genus and typical New-World family the Vulture and many.