Rhynchotus

Rhynchotus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two members of this South American family.

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 Temminck, 1815
Species
Rhynchotus rufescens Red-winged tinamou Rhynchotus maculicollis Huayco tinamou

Taxonomy

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

Species

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

References

• 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.
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