Rhynchotus

Rhynchotus
Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Subfamily: Nothurinae
Genus: Rhynchotus
Spix, 1825
Species

Rhynchotus rufescens
Red-winged tinamou
Rhynchotus maculicollis
Huayco tinamou

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

Taxonomy

Tinamous have evolved from ratites and are the only extant ratites that fly, and are the closest to the ancestral flying ratites.[1]

Species

The species are:

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Clements, J. (2007)

References

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