Elegant Crested Tinamou
| Elegant crested tinamou | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Tinamiformes |
| Family: | Tinamidae |
| Subfamily: | Nothurinae |
| Genus: | Eudromia |
| Species: | E. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
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Eudromia elegans (Saint-Hilaire, 1832) |
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| Sub-species | |
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E. e. elegans |
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| Synonyms | |
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Calodromas elegans (d'Orb. & Geoff.) |
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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)
Calodromas elegans (d'Orb. & Geoff.)
The elegant crested tinamou or martineta tinamou (Eudromia elegans) is a medium-sized tinamou that can be found in southern Chile and Argentina in shrubland.
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. Finally, elegans means neat or elegant, and martinete is Spanish for night heron because its elegant crest is reminiscent of a night heron's crest.
All tinamou are from the family Tinamidae, and in the larger scheme are also ratites. Unlike other ratites, tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not strong fliers. All ratites evolved from prehistoric flying birds, and tinamous are the closest living relative of these birds.
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire first identified the elegant crested tinamou from a specimen from South America, in 1832.
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