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

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Vinony's link graph records 116 inbound references to Rhynchotus, and connects out to Rheiformes, Apteryx and Red-winged Tinamou.

It sits within the topics Bird genera and Rhynchotus.

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Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderTinamiformes
  5. FamilyTinamidae
Observations recorded39,605

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2
Family
Tinamidae
Collections
CUMV, NHMUK
Recorded in
United States, Bolivia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Rhynchotinae
Image
Rhynchotus rufescens -Parque das Aves-8a.jpg
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taxon name
Rhynchotus
Commons category
Rhynchotus
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Rhynchotus
Commons gallery
Rhynchotus
taxon common name
Raudonsparniai tinamai
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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Species
  • Footnotes
  • References

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhynchotus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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