Nothocercus
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{automatic taxobox
| image = NothocercusNigricapillusSmit.jpg
| image_caption = Illustration of Nothocercus nigrocapillus (hooded tinamou) by Joseph Smit, 1895
| taxon = Nothocercus
| authority = Bonaparte, 1856
| type_species = Tinamus julius{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=1 |title= Tinamidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}
| type_species_authority = Bonaparte, 1854
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- Nothocercus bonapartei
Highland tinamou - Nothocercus julius
Tawny-breasted tinamou - Nothocercus nigrocapillus
Hooded tinamou
}}
Nothocercus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises three species of this South American family.
Nothocercus julius (the tawny-breasted tinamou) occupies humid montane forest at middle to high elevations in the Andes from Venezuela south to Peru. It is currently losing its habitat due to clearance of the forest due to agricultural and livestock grazing.{{Cite journal|url=https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/tabtin1/overview|title=Tawny-breasted Tinamou Nothocercus julius - Introduction |journal=Neotropical Birds |doi=10.2173/bow.tabtin1.01 |access-date=2019-10-19|url-access=subscription }}
Etymology
Nothocercus: {{langx|el|νοθος}} nothos "spurious"; κερκος kerkos "tail"{{cite book |last1= Jobling |first1=J.A.|year= 2017| chapter= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology|chapter-url= https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/nothocercus |chapter-url-access=subscription |editor1-last= del Hoyo|editor1-first= J.|editor2-last= Elliott|editor2-first= A.|editor3-last= Sargatal|editor3-first= J.|editor4-last= Christie |editor4-first= D.A.|editor5-last= de Juana|editor5-first= E. |title= Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive |url= https://www.hbw.com/ |url-access=subscription |location= Barcelona|publisher= Lynx Edicions}}
Species
The species are:
- Nothocercus bonapartei, highland tinamou located in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, northern Peru, western Venezuela, and the highlands of Costa Rica and western PanamaClements, J. (2007)
- Nothocercus bonapartei frantzii located in Costa Rica and western Panama
- Nothocercus bonapartei bonapartei located in northwestern Venezuela and northern Colombia
- Nothocercus bonapartei discrepans located in central Colombia
- Nothocercus bonapartei intercedens located in western Colombia
- Nothocercus bonapartei plumbeiceps located in eastern Ecuador and northern Peru
- Nothocercus julius, tawny-breasted tinamou located in the Andes of central Colombia, far western Venezuela, locally in Ecuador, and south central Peru
- Nothocercus nigrocapillus, hooded tinamou located in the Andes of Peru, and Bolivia
- Nothocercus nigrocapillus nigrocapillus located in central Peru and Bolivia
- Nothocercus nigrocapillus cadwaladeri located in northwestern Peru
Footnotes
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References
- {{cite web| url= http://www.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/513570.htm| title=Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Nothocercus | access-date=Feb 4, 2009 |last=Brands | first=Sheila | date=Aug 14, 2008 | work=Project: The Taxonomicon }}
- {{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}}
- [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=553489 ITIS]
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