Rhynchotus

Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Infraclass:	Palaeognathae
Order:	Tinamiformes
Family:	Tinamidae
Subfamily:	Nothurinae
Genus:	Rhynchotus Spix, 1825
Type species
Tinamus rufescens^[1] Temminck, 1815
Species
Rhynchotus rufescens Red-winged tinamou Rhynchotus maculicollis Huayco tinamou

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

Taxonomy

Tinamous have evolved from ratites and are the only extant ratites that fly, and are the closest to the ancestral flying ratites.^[2]

The species are:

Image	Scientific name	Subspecies	Distribution
	red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens	R. rufescens rufescens, located in southeastern Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina.^[3] R. rufescens catingae, located in central and northeastern Brazil^[3] R. rufescens pallascens, located in northeastern Argentina^[3]	located in northern and central Argentina, Brazil, except the western portion, Paraguay, Colombia, and southeastern Peru,^[3] and possibly in Uruguay^[2]
	The huayco tinamou, Rhynchotus maculicollis		Andes of northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.^[3]

Footnotes

Brands, Sheila (Aug 14, 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Rhynchotus". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved Feb 9, 2009.
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.
Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Tinamous". In Hutchins, Michael (ed.). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 57–59, 64. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0.
ITIS

Tinamous (order: Tinamiformes · family: Tinamidae)

Subfamily

Species

Tinaminae

Tinamus	White-throated tinamou Grey tinamou Solitary tinamou Black tinamou Great tinamou
Nothocercus	Highland tinamou Tawny-breasted tinamou Hooded tinamou
Crypturellus	Berlepsch's tinamou Little tinamou Cinereous tinamou Tepui tinamou Brown tinamou Undulated tinamou Pale-browed tinamou Brazilian tinamou Grey-legged tinamou Red-legged tinamou Magdalena tinamou Santa Marta tinamou Colombian tinamou Yellow-legged tinamou Black-capped tinamou Thicket tinamou Slaty-breasted tinamou Choco tinamou Variegated tinamou Rusty tinamou Bartlett's tinamou Small-billed tinamou Barred tinamou Tataupa tinamou

Rhynchotus	Red-winged tinamou Huayco tinamou Taczanowski's tinamou Ornate tinamou Chilean tinamou Brushland tinamou Andean tinamou Curve-billed tinamou
Nothura	White-bellied nothura Lesser nothura Darwin's nothura Spotted nothura Dwarf or least tinamou
Eudromia	Elegant crested tinamou Quebracho crested tinamou
Tinamotis	Puna or Pentland's tinamou Patagonian or Ingouf's tinamou

see Maniraptora
Palaeognathae	see below↓

†Asteriornis? †Eremopezus? †Limenavis?
†Lithornithidae	Calciavis Fissuravis Lithornis Paracathartes Pseudocrypturus

†Remiornis?
†Geranoididae?	Eogeranoides Galligeranoides? Geranodornis Palaeophasianus Paragrus
†Palaeotididae?	Palaeotis Galligeranoides?
†Eogruidae?	Eogrus Sonogrus
†Ergilornithidae?	Amphipelargus Ergilornis Sinoergilornis Urmiornis
Struthionidae	†Orientornis †Pachystruthio? Struthio

Notopalaeognathae	see below↓

†Opisthodactylidae	Diogenornis? Opisthodactylus
Rheidae	†Heterorhea †Hinasuri †Protorhea Rhea

Dinornis Megalapteryx
Emeidae	Anomalopteryx Emeus Euryapteryx Pachyornis

†Miniothura †Querandiornis †Roveretornis
Tinaminae	Crypturellus Nothocercus Tinamus
Nothurinae	Eudromia Nothoprocta Nothura Rhynchotus Taoniscus Tinamotis

†Diogenornis?
Casuariidae	Casuarius Dromaius †Emuarius

Ootaxa
Diamantornis Incognitoolithus Medioolithus Namornis Psammornis Tsondabornis

Taxon identifiers	Wikidata: Q1080915 Wikispecies: Rhynchotus ADW: Rhynchotus BOLD: 102367 CoL: 79PH EoL: 45511984 Fossilworks: 372676 GBIF: 2477461 iNaturalist: 20693 IRMNG: 1368630 ITIS: 174426 NBN: NHMSYS0021247844 NCBI: 30465