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Cathartes melambrotus

Cathartes melambrotus

Aura selvática(+38)·Wetmore, 1964

GBIF:299354732

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South America

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 29 languages.

spaAura selváticaspaitaAvvoltoio testagialla maggioreitaturBüyük Sarı Başlı AkbabaturengForest VultureengengForest Yellow-headed Vultureeng+34 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 29 languages.

spaAura selvática
spa
itaAvvoltoio testagialla maggiore
ita
turBüyük Sarı Başlı Akbaba
tur
engForest Vulture
eng
engForest Yellow-headed Vulture
eng
fraGrand Urubu
fra
engGreater Yellow-headed Vulture
eng
nldGrote Geelkopgier
nld
deuGroßer Gelbkopfgeier
deu
indHering berkepala kuning besar
ind
spaJote cabeza amarilla grande
spa
Stor Gulhovedet Grib
porUrubu-grande-de-cabeça-amarela
por
srpVeliki žutoglavi lešinar
srp
deuWald-Gelbkopfgeier
deu
amazonia katarto
epo
finamazoniankondori
fin
litdidysis kalakutinis grifas
lit
cymfwltur penfelyn mawr
cym
slkkondor modrotemenný
slk
ceskondor větší
ces
hunnagy sárgafejű keselyű
hun
estselvakondor
est
norskogkondor
nor
sweskogsgam
swe
sweskogskondor
swe
polsępnik żółtogłowy
pol
porurubu-amazónico
por
porurubu-da-mata
por
catzopilot de selva
cat
hrvžutoglavi lešinar
hrv
rusБольшая желтоголовая катарта
rus
ukrВелика жовтоголова катарта
ukr
ukrкатарта лісова
ukr
hebקתרטס יערות
heb
araنسر أصفر الرأس الكبير
ara
jpnオオキガシラコンドル
jpn
zho大黃頭美洲鷲
zho
zho大黄头美洲鹫
zho

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299354732
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2481929
Taxon ID
69G3M
Last Crawled
5/28/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026