Rhynchotus | |
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Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens | |
Scientific 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
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Species | |
Rhynchotus rufescens |
Rhynchotus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two members of this South American family.
Tinamous have evolved from ratites and are the only extant ratites that fly, and are the closest to the ancestral flying ratites. [2]
The species are:
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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red-winged tinamou |
Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck, 1815) |
Northern and central
Argentina,
Brazil, except the western portion,
Paraguay,
Colombia, and southeastern
Peru,
[3] and possibly in
Uruguay
[2] |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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huayco tinamou |
Rhynchotus maculicollis G.R. Gray, 1867 |
Andes of northwestern
Argentina and
Bolivia.
[3] |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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