Tinamus

Tinamus
Great tinamou (Tinamus major)
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
Species

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Tinamus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family Tinamidae. This genus comprises some of the larger members of this South American family.

Taxonomy

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]

Genus Tinamus – Hermann, 1783 – five species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
White-throated tinamou

Tinamus guttatus
(Pelzeln, 1863) 		southeastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Amazonian Brazil, and northern Bolivia
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Diet: 		 NT 


Grey tinamou

Tinamus tao
Temminck, 1815

Four subspecies
 northern and western Brazil, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, Colombia east of the Andes, northwestern and northeastern Venezuela, and northwestern Guyana
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Diet: 		 VU 


Solitary tinamou

Tinamus solitarius
(Vieillot, 1819) 		northeastern Argentina (Misiones), eastern Paraguay, eastern Brazil
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Diet: 		 NT 


Black tinamou

Tinamus osgoodi
Conover, 1949

Two subspecies
  • T. o. osgoodi Conover, 1949
  • T. o. herskovitzi Blake, 1953
the Andes of southeastern Peru and the Andes of Colombia
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Great tinamou

Tinamus major
(Gmelin, JF, 1789)

Twelve subspecies
  • T. m. robustus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868 – southeast Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
  • T. m. percautus Van Tyne, 1935 – south Mexico, north Guatemala and Belize
  • T. m. fuscipennis Salvadori, 1895 – north Nicaragua to west Panama
  • T. m. brunneiventris Aldrich, 1937 – south-central Panama
  • T. m. castaneiceps Salvadori, 1895 – southwest Costa Rica and west Panama
  • T. m. saturatus Griscom, 1929 – east Panama and northwest Colombia
  • T. m. zuliensis Osgood & Conover, 1922 – northeast Colombia and north Venezuela
  • T. m. latifrons Salvadori, 1895 – southwest Colombia and west Ecuador
  • T. m. major (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – east Venezuela to northeast Brazil
  • T. m. serratus (Spix, 1825) – northwest Brazil
  • T. m. olivascens Conover, 1937 – Amazonian Brazil
  • T. m. peruvianus Bonaparte, 1856 – southeast Colombia to Bolivia and west Brazil
from southeastern Mexico through Panama, excluding Honduras and from Ecuador to French Guiana, parts of Brazil and northern Bolivia
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References

  1. ^ "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. ^ Hermann, Johann (1783). Tabula affinitatum animalium olim academico specimine edita, nunc uberiore commentario illustrata cum annotationibus ad historiam naturalem animalium augendam facientibus. Argentorati [Strasbourg]: Impensis Joh. Georgii Treuttel. pp. 164, 235.
  3. ^ Apstein, C. (1915). "Nomina conservanda. Unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Spezialisten herausgegeben". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (in German). 5: 119–202 [197].
  4. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 12.
  5. ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1778). "Le tinamou cendré". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 4. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. p. 502.
  6. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 386. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  7. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Ratites: Ostriches to tinamous". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  8. ^ 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.