Rhynchotus

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:

Genus Rhynchotus Spix, 1825 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
red-winged tinamou

Rhynchotus rufescens
(Temminck, 1815)

Three subspecies
Northern and central Argentina, Brazil, except the western portion, Paraguay, Colombia, and southeastern Peru,[3] and possibly in Uruguay[2]
Map of range
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Diet:
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huayco tinamou

Rhynchotus maculicollis
G.R. Gray, 1867
Andes of northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.[3]
Map of range
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Diet:
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Footnotes

  1. ^ "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. ^ a b Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
  3. ^ a b c d e Clements, J. (2007)

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