Elegant crested tinamou

Elegant crested tinamou
At the Bronx Zoo, New York City
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Genus: Eudromia
Species:
E. elegans
Binomial name
Eudromia elegans
Subspecies[2]

E. e. elegans(Saint-Hilaire, 1832)
E. e. intermedia (Dabbene & Lillo, 1913)
E. e. magnistriata (Olrog, 1959)
E. e. riojana (Olrog, 1959)
E. e. albida (Wetmore, 1921)
E. e. multiguttata (Conover, 1950)
E. e. devia (Conover, 1950)
E. e. patagonica (Conover, 1950)
E. e. wetmorei (Banks, 1977)
E. e. numida (Banks, 1977)

Synonyms
  • Calodromas elegans (d'Orb. & Geoff.)[3][4]
  • Calopezus elegans[5]
Eudromia elegans

The elegant crested tinamou or martineta tinamou (Eudromia elegans) is a medium-sized tinamou that can be found in southern Chile and Argentina[6] in Shrubland.[7] The bird has an omnivorous diet. This species is terrestrial due to their poor flying ability.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Eudromia elegans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22678289A92765892. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678289A92765892.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Brands, Sheila, ed. (2021). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Eudromia elegans". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  3. ^ Birds of the Lower Uruguay (Concluded). Walter B. Barrows, The Auk, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct., 1884), description # 206, page 318, doi:10.2307/4067223 (Stable URL)
  4. ^ On the alimentary canal of the Martineta Tinamou (Calodromas elegans). FE Beddard, Ibis, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 1890, pages 61–66 , doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1890.tb06466.x
  5. ^ Dabbene, R. (1923-12) La Martineta (Calopezus elegans) en Santa Cruz (Patagonia). Hornero 003 (02) : 195a-195
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Clements was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ BirdLife International (2008). "Elegant-crested Tinamou - BirdLife Species Factsheet". Data Zone. Retrieved 12 Feb 2009.

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