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Eudromia | |
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Elegant crested tinamou (Eudromia elegans) | |
Scientific classification | |
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 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832
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Species | |
Eudromia elegans |
Eudromia is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two crested members of this South American family.
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.
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.
This genus has a mere 2 species, but the elegant crested tinamou has diversified into a considerable number of subspecies:
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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quebracho crested tinamou | Eudromia formosa (Lillo, 1905) |
Paraguay and northern Argentina |
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elegant crested tinamou | Eudromia elegans Saint-Hilaire, 1832 Ten subspecies
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Argentina and southern Chile |
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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.
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