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.[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the great tinamou.[2][3] 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.[4][5]
The genus contains five species:[6][7]
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White-throated tinamou (Tinamus guttatus) – southeastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Amazonian Brazil, and northern Bolivia
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Grey tinamou (Tinamus tao) – 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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Solitary tinamou (Tinamus solitarius) – northeastern Argentina (Misiones), eastern Paraguay, eastern Brazil
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Black tinamou (Tinamus osgoodi) – in two small areas: the Andes of southeastern Peru and the Andes of Colombia
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Great tinamou (Tinamus major) – from southeastern Mexico through Panama, excluding Honduras and from Ecuador to French Guiana, parts of Brazil and northern Bolivia
References
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^ 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.
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^ Apstein, C. (1915). "Nomina conservanda. Unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Spezialisten herausgegeben". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (in German). 5: 119–202 [197].
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^ 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.
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^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1778). "Le tinamou cendré". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 4. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. p. 502.
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^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 386. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
