What is "ocellated turkey"

Ocellated \O*cel"la*ted\, a. [L. ocellatus, fr. ocellus a little eye, dim. of oculus an eye.]

1. Resembling an eye.

2. Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny.

   Ocellated turkey (Zo["o]l.), the wild turkey of Central America ( Meleagris ocellata).

n. wild turkey of Central America and northern South America [syn: Agriocharis ocellata, turkey]

The ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula. A relative of the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), it was sometimes previously treated in a genus of its own (Agriocharis), but the differences between the two turkeys are currently considered too small to justify generic segregation. It is a relatively large bird, at around long and an average weight of in females and in males.

The ocellated turkey lives only in a range in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico—which includes all or part the states of Quintana Roo, Campeche, Yucatán, Tabasco, and Chiapas—as well as the northern parts of Belize and Guatemala.