Rhynchotus

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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[edit]

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

Species[edit]

The species are:

Genus RhynchotusSpix, 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
Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
 LC 


huayco tinamou

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

Habitat:

Diet:
 LC 


Footnotes[edit]

  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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