Rhynchotus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Tinamiformes |
Family: | Tinamidae |
Subfamily: | Nothurinae |
Genus: | Rhynchotus Spix, 1825[1] |
Species | |
Rhynchotus rufescens |
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:
- The 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 maculicollis, located in the Andes of northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.[3]
Footnotes[]
References[]
- Brands, Sheila (Aug 14 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Rhynchotus". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved Feb 09 2009. Check date values in:
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(help) - 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. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 57–59, 64. ISBN 0 7876 5784 0.
- ITIS
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