Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Etymology  





2 Species  





3 Footnotes  





4 References  














Nothocercus






العربية
Azərbaycanca
Brezhoneg
Català
Cebuano
Español
Esperanto
فارسی
Français
Hrvatski
Italiano

Kotava
Magyar
مصرى
Nederlands

Polski
Português
Русский
Suomi
Svenska
Türkçe
Українська
Tiếng Vit
Winaray

 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 




In other projects  



Wikimedia Commons
Wikispecies
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Nothocercus
Illustration of Nothocercus nigrocapillus (hooded tinamou) by Joseph Smit, 1895
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Subfamily: Tinaminae
Genus: Nothocercus
Bonaparte, 1856
Type species
Tinamus julius[1]

Bonaparte, 1854

Species

Nothocercus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises three species of this South American family.

Nothocercus julius (the tawny-breasted tinamou) occupies humid montane forest at middle to high elevations in the Andes from Venezuela south to Peru. It is currently losing its habitat due to clearance of the forest due to agricultural and livestock grazing.[2]

Etymology[edit]

Nothocercus: Greek: νοθος nothos "spurious"; κερκος kerkos "tail"[3]

Species[edit]

The species are:

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  • ^ "Tawny-breasted Tinamou Nothocercus julius - Introduction". Neotropical Birds. doi:10.2173/bow.tabtin1.01. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  • ^ Jobling, J.A. (2017). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.
  • ^ a b c d e f g h i j Clements, J. (2007)
  • References[edit]


    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nothocercus&oldid=1193779871"

    Categories: 
    Nothocercus
    Bird genera
    Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
    Hidden categories: 
    Articles with short description
    Short description matches Wikidata
    Articles with 'species' microformats
    Articles containing Greek-language text
    CS1: long volume value
     



    This page was last edited on 5 January 2024, at 16:21 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki