Rhynchotus

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

Rhynchotus
Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
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

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. Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
  3. 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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