Rhynchotus
Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Subfamily: Nothurinae
Genus: Rhynchotus
Spix, 1825
Type species
Tinamus rufescens[1]
Temminck, 1815
Species

Rhynchotus rufescens
Red-winged tinamou
Rhynchotus maculicollis
Huayco tinamou

Rhynchotus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two members of this South American family.

Taxonomy

Tinamous have evolved from ratites and are the only extant ratites that fly, and are the closest to the ancestral flying ratites.[2]

Species

The species are:

ImageScientific nameSubspeciesDistribution
red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens located in northern and central Argentina, Brazil, except the western portion, Paraguay, Colombia, and southeastern Peru,[3] and possibly in Uruguay[2]
The huayco tinamou, Rhynchotus maculicollisAndes of northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. 1 2 Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Clements, J. (2007)

References

  • Brands, Sheila (Aug 14, 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Rhynchotus". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved Feb 9, 2009.
  • Clements, James (2007). The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World (6 ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-4501-9.
  • Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Tinamous". In Hutchins, Michael (ed.). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 57–59, 64. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0.
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