Tinamus
| Tinamus | |
|---|---|
| Great tinamou (Tinamus major) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Tinamiformes |
| Family: | Tinamidae |
| Subfamily: | Tinaminae |
| Genus: | Tinamus Hermann, 1783 |
| Type species | |
| Tetrao major[1] Gmelin, JF, 1789
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| Species | |
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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.[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the great tinamou.[3][4] 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.[5][6]
The genus contains five species:[7]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grey tinamou | Tinamus tao | Amazonia | |
| Solitary tinamou | Tinamus solitarius | east Brazil to northeast Argentina and east Paraguay | |
| Black tinamou | Tinamus osgoodi | central south Colombia and southeast Peru | |
| Great tinamou | Tinamus major | south Mexico through Amazonia | |
| White-throated tinamou | Tinamus guttatus | Amazonia |
In 2025 a potentially new species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans) was described from the Sierra del Divisor in the Brazilian state of Acre.[8]
References
- ^ "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Apstein, C. (1915). "Nomina conservanda. Unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Spezialisten herausgegeben". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (in German). 5: 119–202 [197].
- ^ 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.
- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1778). "Le tinamou cendré". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 4. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. p. 502.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 386. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Morais, L.A.; Crozariol, M.A.; Godoy, F.I.; Plácido, R.A.A.; Raposo, M.A. (2025). "A new species of Tinamus (Aves: Tinamiformes) from the western Amazon, Brazil". Zootaxa. 5725 (2): 279–291. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5725.2.6.