Herculano Alvarenga

Herculano Marcos Ferraz de Alvarenga Brazilian palaeontologist and ornithologist

• Museu de História Natural de Taubate, Taubate, SP, Brasil

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 19 taxon names authored by Herculano Alvarenga

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1982

• Alvarenga, H. 1982. Uma gigantesca ave fóssil do Cenozóico brasileiro: Physornis brasiliensis sp. n. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 54: 697–712. Reference page. 

1983

• Alvarenga, H.M.F. 1983. Una ave ratitae do Paleoceno brasileiro: bacia calcaria de Itaborai, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Boletim do Museu Nacional de Rio de Janeiro Geologia 41: 1–7. Reference page. 

1985

• Alvarenga, H. 1985. Um novo Psilopteridae (Aves: Gruiformes) dos sedimentos Terciários de Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia, 8. Anais. Rio de Janeiro, NME-DNPM (Série Geologia 27): 17–20. Reference page. 

1993

• Alvarenga, H. 1993. Paraphysornis novo gênero para Physornis brasiliensis Alvarenga, 1982 (Aves: Phorusrhacidae). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 65: 403–406. [not seen] Reference page. 

1999

• Alvarenga, H. 1999. A Fossil Screamer (Anseriformes: Anhimidae) from the Middle Tertiary of Southeastern Brazil. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: 223–230. BHL Reference page. 

2002

• Olson, S.L. & Alvarenga, H.M.F. 2002. A new genus of small teratorn from the Middle Tertiary of the Taubaté Basin, Brazil (Aves: Teratornithidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115(4): 701–705. BHL Reference page. 

2003

• Alvarenga, H.M.F. & Höfling, E. 2003. Systematic revision of the Phorusrhacidae (Aves: Ralliformes). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 43(4): 55–91. DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492003000400001 Reference page. 

2008

• Maurício, G.N., Mata, H., Bornschein, M.R., Cadena, C.D., Alvarenga, H. & Bonatto, S.L. 2008. Hidden generic diversity in Neotropical birds: Molecular and anatomical data support a new genus for the “Scytalopus” indigoticus species-group (Aves: Rhinocryptidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(1): 125–135. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.06.017. Full article view Reference page. 

2010

• Ericson, P.G.P., S. L. Olson; M. Irestedt; H. Alvarenga & J. Fjeldså. 2010. Circumscription of a monophyletic family for the tapaculos (Aves: Rhinocryptidae): Psiloramphus in and Melanopareia out. Journal of Ornithology 151 (2): 337–345. Full article (PDF) DOI: 10.1007/s10336-009-0460-9 Reference page.  

2011

• Alvarenga, H., Chiappe, L. & Bertelli, S. 2011. Phorusrhacids: the terror birds. Pp. 187–208. In Dyke, G. & Kaiser, G. (eds) Living dinosaurs: the evolutionary history of modern birds. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester. ISBN 978-0-4706-5666-2. Reference page. 
• Mayr, G., Alvarenga, H. & Mourer-Chauviré, C. 2011. Out of Africa: Fossils shed light on the origin of the hoatzin, an iconic Neotropic bird. Naturwissenschaften 98: 961–966. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0849-1 ResearchGate Reference page.