Tepui Tinamou / Crypturellus ptaritepui
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Tepui Tinamou
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Protonym: Crypturellus ptaritepui Am.Mus.Novit. no.1274 p.1
Taxonomy: Tinamiformes / Tinamidae / Crypturellus
Taxonomy Code: teptin1
Type Locality: Cerro Ptari-tepui, southwest slope. Gran Sabana, Bolivar, Venezuela; altitude 1,700 meters.
Author: Zimmer & Phelps
Publish Year: 1945
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.
ptaritepui
Cerro Ptari-tepuí, Bolívar, Venezuela.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
