Crypturellus Brevirostris Bird

Crypturellus Brevirostris Bird

Crypturellus Brevirostris Bird

English Name:  Rusty Tinamou
Latin Name:  Crypturellus brevirostris
Protonym:  Tinamus brevirostris Verh.k.k.Zool.-Bot.Ges.Wien 13 p.1128,1130
Taxonomy:  Tinamiformes / Tinamidae / Crypturellus
Taxonomy Code:  rustin1
Type Locality:  Brazil.
Author:  von Pelzeln
Publish Year:  1863
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CRYPTURELLUS
(Tinamidae; Tataupá Tinamou C. tataupa) Dim. < genus Crypturus Illiger, 1811, tinamou; "CRYPTURELLUS, gen.nov.  We have not included in the genus Crypturus the two species C. tataupa and C. parvirostris, as we consider them to differ generically, chiefly in the formation of the bills.  In all the South-American species of the preceding genus (twenty) the nostrils are placed in the anterior half of the bill, whereas in Crypturellus they are situated in the posterior portion.  The membrane on this part is more persistent than in Crypturus and the gonys is proportionately much longer.  We propose C. tataupa (Temminck) as the type" (Brabourne & Chubb 1914); "Crypturellus Brabourne and Chubb, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), 14, 1914, p. 322.  Type, by original designation, "C. tataupa Temm." (= Tinamus tataupa Temminck.)" (Peters, 1931, I, p. 15).
Synon. Crypturornis, Microcrypturus, Orthocrypturus.

brevirostre / brevirostris
Mod. L. brevirostris  having a short beak  < L. brevis  short; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.