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Tinamus

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Tinamus

Great tinamou (Tinamus major)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Infraclass:	Palaeognathae
Order:	Tinamiformes
Family:	Tinamidae
Subfamily:	Tinaminae
Genus:	Tinamus Hermann, 1783
Type species
Tetrao major^[1] Gmelin, JF, 1789
Species
see text

Tinamus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family Tinamidae. This genus comprises some of the larger members of this South American family.

Taxonomy

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The genus Tinamus was introduced in 1783 by the French naturalist Johann Hermann.^[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the great tinamou.^[3]^[4] Hermann based his name on "Les Tinamous" used by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The word『Tinamú』in the Carib language of French Guiana was used for the tinamous.^[5]^[6]

The genus contains five species:^[7]^[8]

Genus **Tinamus** – Hermann, 1783 – five species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
White-throated tinamou	Tinamus guttatus (Pelzeln, 1863)	southeastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Amazonian Brazil, and northern Bolivia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Grey tinamou	Tinamus tao Temminck, 1815 Four subspecies T. t. larensis (Phelps & Phelps, 1949) T. t. tao (Temminck, 1815) T. t. kleei (Tschudi, 1843) T. t. septentrionalis (Brabourne & Chubb, 1913)	northern and western Brazil, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, Colombia east of the Andes, northwestern and northeastern Venezuela, and northwestern Guyana	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Solitary tinamou	Tinamus solitarius (Vieillot, 1819)	northeastern Argentina (Misiones), eastern Paraguay, eastern Brazil	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Black tinamou	Tinamus osgoodi Conover, 1949 Two subspecies T. o. osgoodi Conover, 1949 T. o. herskovitzi Blake, 1953	the Andes of southeastern Peru and the Andes of Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Great tinamou	Tinamus major (Gmelin, JF, 1789) Twelve subspecies T. m. robustus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868 – southeast Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras T. m. percautus Van Tyne, 1935 – south Mexico, north Guatemala and Belize T. m. fuscipennis Salvadori, 1895 – north Nicaragua to west Panama T. m. brunneiventris Aldrich, 1937 – south-central Panama T. m. castaneiceps Salvadori, 1895 – southwest Costa Rica and west Panama T. m. saturatus Griscom, 1929 – east Panama and northwest Colombia T. m. zuliensis Osgood & Conover, 1922 – northeast Colombia and north Venezuela T. m. latifrons Salvadori, 1895 – southwest Colombia and west Ecuador T. m. major (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – east Venezuela to northeast Brazil T. m. serratus (Spix, 1825) – northwest Brazil T. m. olivascens Conover, 1937 – Amazonian Brazil T. m. peruvianus Bonaparte, 1856 – southeast Colombia to Bolivia and west Brazil	from southeastern Mexico through Panama, excluding Honduras and from Ecuador to French Guiana, parts of Brazil and northern Bolivia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

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^ "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.

^ Hermann, Johann (1783). Tabula affinitatum animalium olim academico specimine edita, nunc uberiore commentario illustrata cum annotationibus ad historiam naturalem animalium augendam facientibus. Argentorati [Strasbourg]: Impensis Joh. Georgii Treuttel. pp. 164, 235.

^ Apstein, C. (1915). "Nomina conservanda. Unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Spezialisten herausgegeben". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (in German). 5: 119–202 [197].

^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 12.

^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1778). "Le tinamou cendré". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 4. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. p. 502.

^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 386. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Ratites: Ostriches to tinamous". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 June 2022.

^ 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.

Tinamous (order: Tinamiformes · family: Tinamidae)

Subfamily

Genus

Species

Tinaminae

Tinamus

Nothocercus

Crypturellus

Nothurinae

Rhynchotus	Red-winged tinamou Huayco tinamou Taczanowski's tinamou Ornate tinamou Chilean tinamou Brushland tinamou Andean tinamou Curve-billed tinamou
Nothura	White-bellied nothura Lesser nothura Darwin's nothura Spotted nothura Dwarf or least tinamou
Eudromia	Elegant crested tinamou Quebracho crested tinamou
Tinamotis	Puna or Pentland's tinamou Patagonian or Ingouf's tinamou