Neomorphinae is a subfamily

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of the cuckoo

Cuckoo

The cuckoos are a family, Cuculidae, of near passerine birds. The order Cuculiformes, in addition to the cuckoos, also includes the turacos . Some zoologists and taxonomists have also included the unique Hoatzin in the Cuculiformes, but its taxonomy remains in dispute...

 family, Cuculidae. Members of this subfamily are known as New World ground cuckoos, since most are largely terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 and native to the Americas

Americas

The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...

. Only Dromococcyx and Tapera are more arboreal

Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In every habitat in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may only scale trees occasionally, while others are exclusively arboreal. These habitats pose numerous mechanical challenges to animals...

, and these are also the only brood parasitic cuckoos in the Americas, while the remaining all built their own nest.

Genera

• Genus Dromococcyx
  Dromococcyx
  Dromococcyx is a genus of uncommon to rare cuckoos found in forests and woodlands of the Neotropics. They have strikingly graduated tails, and are among the few cuckoos of the Americas that are brood parasites ....
  
   
  • D. pavoninus Pelzeln, 1870 - Pavonine Cuckoo
    Pavonine Cuckoo
    The Pavonine Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela....
    
    
  • D. phasianellus (Spix
    Johann Baptist von Spix
    Dr. Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix was a German naturalist.Spix was born in Höchstadt, Middle Franconia, as the seventh of eleven children. His boyhood home is the site of the Spix Museum , opened to the public in 2004...
    
    , 1824) - Pheasant Cuckoo
    Pheasant Cuckoo
    The Pheasant Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are...
    
    

• Genus Geococcyx
  Geococcyx
  The roadrunners are two species of bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family, Cuculidae, native to North and Central America...
  
   Wagler
  Johann Georg Wagler
  Johann Georg Wagler was a German herpetologist.Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and became Director of the Zoological Museum at the University of Munich after Spix's death in 1826...
  
  , 1831
  • G. californianus (Lesson, 1829) - Greater Roadrunner
    Greater Roadrunner
    The Greater Roadrunner, taxonomically classified as Geococcyx californianus, meaning "Californian Earth-cuckoo," is a long-legged bird in the cuckoo family, Cuculidae. Along with the Lesser Roadrunner, it is one of two species in the roadrunner genus Geococcyx...
    
    
  • G. velox (Wagner
    Johann Andreas Wagner
    Johann Andreas Wagner was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and archaeologist.Wagner was a professor at the University of Munich, and curator of the Zoologische Staatssammlung ....
    
    , 1836) - Lesser Roadrunner
    Lesser Roadrunner
    The Lesser Roadrunner, Geococcyx velox, is a large, long-legged member of the Cuckoo family, Cuculidae.The Lesser roadrunner resembles the Greater Roadrunner in appearance and habit but is smaller and has a significantly shorter bill...
    
    

• Genus Morococcyx
  • M. erythropygus (Lesson, 1842) - Lesser Ground Cuckoo

• Genus Neomorphus
  Neomorphus
  Neomorphus is a genus of terrestrial cuckoos in the Cuculidae family. Despite their relatively large size, they are highly inconspicuous and rarely seen...
  
   Gloger
  Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger
  Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger was a German zoologist and ornithologist.Gloger was the first person to recognise the structural differences between swallows and swifts, and also the first to put up artificial bat boxes.He was the originator of Gloger's rule, which states that dark pigments...
  
  , 1827
  • N. geoffroyi (Temminck
    Coenraad Jacob Temminck
    Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...
    
    , 1820) - Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo
  • N. pucheranii Deville, 1851 - Red-billed Ground Cuckoo
  • N. radiolosus Sclater
    Philip Sclater
    Philip Lutley Sclater was an English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world...
    
     & Salvin
    Osbert Salvin
    Osbert Salvin FRS was an English naturalist, best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America....
    
    , 1878 - Banded Ground Cuckoo
  • N. rufipennis (Gray, 1849) - Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo
  • N. squamiger (Todd, 1925) - Scaled Ground Cuckoo
• Genus Tapera
  • T. naevia (Linnaeus, 1766) - Striped Cuckoo
    Striped Cuckoo
    The Striped Cuckoo is a near-passerine bird, the only member of the genus Tapera. This resident cuckoo is found from Mexico and Trinidad south to Bolivia and Argentina....