Tinamou
| 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 | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 subfaimilies, 9 genera, 47 species, 127 subspecies | |
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Range o the faimily | |
| Synonyms | |
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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]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- 1 2 Brands 2008
- ↑ Gotch 1995, p. 182
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