Eudromia

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.Gotch, A. F. (1995)

Tinamous are paleognaths related to the flightless ratites. They are probably close in appearance to the flying ancestors of the ratites. Unlike other ratites, tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not strong fliers.Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)

This genus has a mere 2 species, but the elegant crested tinamou has diversified into a considerable number of subspecies:

The species are:Mikko's Phylogeny Archive [http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/] {{cite web|last=Haaramo|first=Mikko|year=2007|title=Tinamiformes - tinamous |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/archosauria/aves/palaeognathia/tinamiformes.html |access-date= 30 December 2015}}Paleofile.com (net, info) {{cite web|url=http://www.paleofile.com/ |title=Paleofile.com |access-date=2015-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111195520/http://paleofile.com/ |archive-date=2016-01-11 }}. {{cite web|url=http://www.paleofile.com/ |title=Taxonomic lists- Aves |access-date=30 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111195520/http://paleofile.com/ |archive-date=11 January 2016 }}

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| E. f. formosa located in northern Argentina

| E. f. mira located in Paraguay and northwestern Argentina

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|name=elegant crested tinamou |binomial=Eudromia elegans

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|range= Argentina and southern ChileClements, J. (2007)

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| E. e. elegans located in central Argentina

| E. e. intermedia located in northwestern Argentina

| E. e. magnistriata located in northwestern Argentina

| E. e. riojana located in northwestern Argentina

| E. e. albida located in western Argentina

| E. e. multiguttata located in east central Argentina

| E. e. devia located in southwestern Argentina

| E. e. patagonica located in southern Argentina and southern Chile

| E. e. numida located in central Argentina

| E. e. wetmorei located in western Argentina

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• †Eudromia sp. (Late Miocene of La Pampa Province, Argentina)
• †E. olsoni Tambussi & Tonni 1985 [Tinamisornis intermedius Dabbene & Lillo 1913 non Rovereto 1914; Eudromia elegans intermedia (Dabbene & Lillo 1913)] (Late Pliocene of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)Description de deux nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux de la Républic Argentine: un perroquet du genre Cyanolyseus et un tinamou du genre Calopezus. R Dabbene and M Lillo, 1913
• †E. intermedia (Rovereto 1914) [Tinamisornis intermedia Rovereto 1914 non Dabbene & Lillo 1913] (Pliocene of Argentina)

MPLK-03, a fossil specimen from Argentina, possibly belongs to Eudromia and surpacces extanct E. elegans and E. formosa in size by 2.2-8% and 6-14%, respectively. It existed during the Late Pleistocene, around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum.{{cite journal|author=Marcos Cenizo, Jorge Noriega, Juan Diederle, Esteban Soibelzon, Leopoldo Soibelzon, Sergio Rodriguez, Elisa Beilinson|date=2018|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326272032|title=An unexpected large Crested Tinamou (Eudromia, Tinamidae, Aves) near to Last Glacial Maximum (MIS 2, late Pleistocene) of the Argentine Pampas|journal=Historical Biology |volume=32|issue=3|pages=330–338 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2018.1491568|s2cid=91851921 |hdl=11336/84901|hdl-access=free}}

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• {{cite web | url=http://www.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/51361.htm | title=Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Eudromia | access-date=12 Feb 2009 | last=Brands | first=Sheila | date=Aug 14, 2008 | work=Project: The Taxonomicon }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• {{cite book |last1=Clements |first1=James |title=The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World |edition=6 |year=2007 |publisher= Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, NY |isbn=978-0-8014-4501-9 }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Davies |first=S.J.J.F.|editor1-first=Michael |editor1-last= Hutchins|encyclopedia=Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia |title=Tinamous |edition=2 |year=2003 |publisher=Gale Group|volume=8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins |location=Farmington Hills, MI|isbn=0-7876-5784-0 |pages=57–59}}
• {{cite book |last1=Gotch |first1=A. F. |title=Latin Names Explained. A Guide to the Scientific Classifications of Reptiles, Birds & Mammals|year= 1995 |orig-year=1979 |publisher=Facts on File |location=New York, NY|isbn=0-8160-3377-3|page=183|chapter=Tinamous}}

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