The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Orthocrypturus

(Tinamidae; syn. Crypturellus Variegated Tinamou C. variegatus) Gr. ορθος orthos  straight (i.e. straight-billed); genus Crypturus Illiger, 1811, tinamou; "ORTHOCRYPTURUS, nobis  (Chororões, Jaós e Zabelés)  Forma e aspecto de Crypturus Illiger, Crypturornis Oberholser, com o bico recto ou quasi recto e a côr differente nos dous sexos.  O caracteristico da plumagem é o transfasciado largo sobre o tronco, principalmente nas femeas.  Especie typo: Crypturus variegatus (Gml.)" (de Miranda-Ribeiro 1938); "Orthocrypturus de Miranda-Ribeiro, 1938, Revista do Museu Paulista, 23 (1937), p. 739.  Type, by original designation, Tetrao variegatus Gmelin, 1789." (JAJ 2021).


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