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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tinamus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family Tinamidae. This genus comprises some of the larger members of this South American family.
Tinamus | |
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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 |
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]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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White-throated tinamou | Tinamus guttatus (Pelzeln, 1863) |
southeastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Amazonian Brazil, and northern Bolivia |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
NT
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Grey tinamou | Tinamus tao Temminck, 1815 |
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
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Solitary tinamou | Tinamus solitarius (Vieillot, 1819) |
northeastern Argentina (Misiones), eastern Paraguay, eastern Brazil |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
NT
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Black tinamou | Tinamus osgoodi Conover, 1949 Two subspecies
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the Andes of southeastern Peru and the Andes of Colombia |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
VU
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Great tinamou | Tinamus major (Gmelin, JF, 1789) Twelve subspecies
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from southeastern Mexico through Panama, excluding Honduras and from Ecuador to French Guiana, parts of Brazil and northern Bolivia |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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