Tinamidae

From Palaeos

<==Tinamidae [Crypturidae, Tinamiformes]
   |--Tinamotis Vigors 1837 [Tinamotidae, Tinamotididae]
   |--Rhynchotus Spix 1825 [Rhynchotidae]
   |    `--R. rufescens*
   |--Eudromia Geoffroy St.-Hilaire 1832 [Eudromiidae]
   |    `--E. elegans*
   |--Nothoprocta
   |    |--N. cinerascens
   |    `--N. perdicaria
   |--Nothura
   |    |--N. boraquira
   |    |--N. darwinii
   |    `--N. maculosa
   |--Tinamus Hermann 1783 [incl. Cryptura Illiger 1811]
   |    |--T. major* (Gmelin 1789) [=Tetrao major]
   |    |--T. robustus [=T. major robustus]
   |    |--T. solitarius
   |    `--T. tao
   `--Crypturellus
        |--C. boucardi
        |--C. cinnamomeus
        |--C. noctivagus
        |--C. obsoletus
        |--C. parvirostris
        |--C. tataupa
        |--C. undulatus
        `--C. variegatus

* Type species of generic name indicated

References

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Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1-281.

Clarke, J. A. 2004. Morphology, phylogenetic taxonomy, and systematics of Ichthyornis and Apatornis (Avialae: Ornithurae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 286: 1-179.

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Tendeiro, J. 1962. Estudos sobre malófagos: Revisão monográfica do género Columbicola Ewing (Ischnocera, Philopteridae). Memórias da Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, ser. 2, 32: 7-460.

Zeffer, A., L. C. Johansson & Å. Marmebro. 2003. Functional correlation between habitat use and leg morphology in birds (Aves). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 461-484.

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