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Tinamou
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Tinamous form an order (Tinamiformes) comprisin a single faimily, wi twa distinct subfaimilies, containin 47 species o birds foond in Mexico, Central Americae, an Sooth Americae. The wird "tinamou" comes frae the Galibi wird for these birds, tinamu.[2]
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Tinamou | |
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Elegant Crestit Tinamou (Eudromia elegans) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Aves |
Superorder: | Palaeognathae |
Order: | Tinamiformes Huxley, 1872[1] |
Faimily: | Tinamidae G. R. Gray, 1840[1] |
Teep species | |
Tetrao major Gmelin, 1789 | |
Subfaimilies | |
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Diversity | |
2 subfaimilies, 9 genera, 47 species, 127 subspecies | |
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Range o the faimily | |
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