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Ramphastidae
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Ramphastidae sunt familia avium neotropicarum ordinis Piciformium, artissime cum capitonidis cognatae. Eis sunt colores clarissimi et saepe rostra etiam clarissime colorata. Familiae sunt plus quam quadraginta species in quinque genera digestae.
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Ordo : Piciformes
Subordo : Pici
Infraordo : Ramphastides
Familia : Ramphastidae
Vigors, 1825
Ramphastidae plerumque sunt arboreales. Nidos in foraminibus faciunt ab aliis animalibus in truncis arborum excavatis, sicut picidis, nam rostrum ramphastidarum instrumento excavationis haud prodest. Usitate a duobus ad viginti unum ova pariunt. Pulli sese ex ovis omnino nudi excludunt, sine pluma. Ramphastidae in locis propriis pariunt, non migrantes. Plerumque paria vel parvi greges inveniuntur. Eae rostris batere et luctari solent, ut putatur ad hierarchias dominii instituendas. In Africa et Asia, bucerotidae eundem oecologicum locum proprium occupant, quod exemplum evolutionis convergentis videtur.[1]