Eudromia
Eudromia is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two crested members of this South American family.
Species
Eurasian Dotterel
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyDromiidae
Habitatmarine
Observations1,143
via GBIF
Article
7 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Taxonomy
- Extant species
- Fossils
- Footnotes
- References
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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.