Eudromia

Eudromia
Elegant crested tinamou
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Subclass: Neornithes
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Subfamily: Nothurinae
Genus: Eudromia
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832
Species

Eudromia elegans
Elegant crested tinamou
Eudromia formosa
Quebracho crested tinamou

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

Etymology

Eudromia comes from two Greek words, eu meaning well or nicely, and dromos meaning a running escape. These definitions together mean, nice running escape, which refers to their habit of escaping predators by running.[1]

Taxonomy

Tinamous are paleognaths related to the flightless ratites. They are probably close in appearance to the flying ancestors of the ratites. Unlike other ratites, tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not strong fliers.[2]

This genus has a mere 2 species, but the elegant crested tinamou has diversified into a considerable number of subspecies:

The species are:[3][4]

Footnotes

  1. Gotch, A. F. (1995)
  2. Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
  3. Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "Tinamiformes - tinamous". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. Paleofile.com (net, info) . "Taxonomic lists- Aves". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Clements, J. (2007)

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