Eudromia

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Eudromia
Elegant Crested Tinamou (Eudromia elegans) (15953728501).jpg
Elegant crested tinamou (Eudromia elegans)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Subfamily: Nothurinae
Genus: Eudromia
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832
Type species
Eudromia elegans [1]
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832
Species

Eudromia elegans
Elegant crested tinamou
Eudromia formosa
Quebracho crested tinamou

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

Etymology

Eudromia comes from two Greek words, eu meaning well or nicely, and dromos meaning a running escape. These definitions together mean, nice running escape, which refers to their habit of escaping predators by running. [2]

Taxonomy

Tinamous are paleognaths related to the flightless ratites. They are probably close in appearance to the flying ancestors of the ratites. Unlike other ratites, tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not strong fliers. [3]

This genus has a mere 2 species, but the elegant crested tinamou has diversified into a considerable number of subspecies:

The species are: [4] [5]

Extant Species

ImageScientific nameSubspeciesDistribution
Eudromia formosa (cropped).jpg quebracho crested tinamou, Eudromia formosa Paraguay and northern Argentina [6]
Tinamou, Elegant-crested2.jpg elegant crested tinamou, Eudromia elegans
  • Eudromia elegans elegans located in central Argentina [6]
  • Eudromia elegans intermedia located in northwestern Argentina [6]
  • Eudromia elegans magnistriata located in northwestern Argentina [6]
  • Eudromia elegans riojana located in northwestern Argentina [6]
  • Eudromia elegans albida located in western Argentina [6]
  • Eudromia elegans multiguttata located in east central Argentina [6]
  • Eudromia elegans devia located in southwestern Argentina [6]
  • Eudromia elegans patagonica located in southern Argentina and southern Chile [6]
  • Eudromia elegans numida located in central Argentina [6]
  • Eudromia elegans wetmorei located in western Argentina [6]
Argentina and southern Chile [6]

Fossils

MPLK-03, a fossil specimen from Argentina, possibly belongs to Eudromia and surpacces extanct E. elegans and E. formosa in size by 2.2-8% and 6-14%, respectively. It existed during the Late Pleistocene, around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum. [8]

Footnotes

  1. "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. Gotch, A. F. (1995)
  3. Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
  4. Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "Tinamiformes - tinamous" . Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. Paleofile.com (net, info) "Paleofile.com". Archived from the original on 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2015-12-30.. "Taxonomic lists- Aves". Archived from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Clements, J. (2007)
  7. Description de deux nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux de la Républic Argentine: un perroquet du genre Cyanolyseus et un tinamou du genre Calopezus. R Dabbene and M Lillo, 1913
  8. Marcos Cenizo, Jorge Noriega, Juan Diederle, Esteban Soibelzon, Leopoldo Soibelzon, Sergio Rodriguez, Elisa Beilinson (2018). "An unexpected large Crested Tinamou (Eudromia, Tinamidae, Aves) near to Last Glacial Maximum (MIS 2, late Pleistocene) of the Argentine Pampas". Historical Biology. 32 (3): 330–338. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1491568. S2CID   91851921.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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