Poole, Karen E.
Eudromia
Sign in to saveEudromia is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two crested members of this South American family.
Species
Eurasian Dotterel
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyDromiidae
Habitatmarine
Observations1,143
Observations recorded3,012,139,120
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Tinamidae
- Collections
- CUMV, FMNH, GNM, UNICAMP
- Recorded in
- United States, Sweden, Argentina
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Taxonomy
- Extant species
- Fossils
- Footnotes
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Eudromia is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two crested members of this South American family.
==Etymology== 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eudromia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.