# Eudromia

Eudromia is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two crested members of this South American family.

## Etymology

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.

## Taxonomy

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

### Extant Species

Genus Eudromia – I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832 – two species :
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
| quebracho crested tinamou | Eudromia formosa (Lillo, 1905) Two subspecies E. f. formosa located in northern Argentina E. f. mira located in Paraguay and northwestern Argentina | Paraguay and northern Argentina | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| elegant crested tinamou | Eudromia elegans Saint-Hilaire, 1832 Ten subspecies 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 | Argentina and southern Chile | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |

### Fossils

* †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)
* †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.

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
* ↑ Gotch, A. F. (1995)
* ↑ Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
* ↑ Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "Tinamiformes - tinamous". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
* ↑ Paleofile.com (net, info) "Paleofile.com". Archived from the original on 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2015-12-30.. "Taxonomic lists- Aves". Archived from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Clements, J. (2007)
* ↑ 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
* ↑ Marcos Cenizo, Jorge Noriega, Juan Diederle, Esteban Soibelzon, Leopoldo Soibelzon, Sergio Rodriguez, Elisa Beilinson (2018). "An unexpected large Crested Tinamou (Eudromia, Tinamidae, Aves) near to Last Glacial Maximum (MIS 2, late Pleistocene) of the Argentine Pampas". Historical Biology. 32 (3): 330–338. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1491568. hdl:11336/84901. S2CID 91851921.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)