Tinamou
Appearance
Tinamou | |
---|---|
![]() | |
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 | |
![]() | |
Range o the faimily
| |
Synonyms | |
|
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]- ↑ a b Brands 2008
- ↑ Gotch 1995, p. 182
![]() | This bird-relatit airticle is a stub. Ye can help Wikipaedia bi expandin it. |