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Rhynchotus

Rhynchotus
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
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 Rhynchotus – Spix, 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 R. r. rufescens, located in southeastern Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina.[3] R. r. catingae, located in central and northeastern Brazil[3] R. r. pallascens, located in northeastern Argentina[3]	Northern and central Argentina, Brazil, except the western portion, Paraguay, Colombia, and southeastern Peru,[3] and possibly in Uruguay[2]	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
huayco tinamou	Rhynchotus maculicollis G.R. Gray, 1867	Andes of northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.[3]	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

Footnotes[edit]

References[edit]

• 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.
• ITIS