New tinamou species described 2 December 2025

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Exciting to see a new, distinctive, species of tinamou described. I added a curation flag with the reference to the genus Tinamus. That seemed the correct thing to do, but somebody please tell me if there is a better procedure.

“Tinamus resonans sp. nov., a new species of tinamou from the montane forests of the Serra do Divisor, western Amazonia, Brazil.”
Reference:
Morais, L.A., Crozariol, M.A., Godoy, F.I., Plácido, R.A.A. & Raposo, M.A. (2025) A new species of Tinamus (Aves: Tinamiformes) from the western Amazon, Brazil. Zootaxa, 5725 (2), 279–291. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.2.6

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Is there an iNat obs ? Maybe waiting at a broader ID ?

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I added the species (resolving the flag), but apparently there are no tinamou observations around the Serra do Divisor where the species was found.

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I thought that bird taxonomy was locked, so that normal curators couldn’t add new species?

For what it’s worth, this species was placed in the genus Tinamus using a definition of that genus which has not yet been widely adopted. Under our current taxonomy, it would fall in the Crypturellus clade, together with C. soui, C. variegatus and other species.

It’s an elusive species in a remote region which is difficult to access, so it’s very unlikely there are hidden observations waiting at a broader ID.

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Thanks, the locked taxonomy was a question I had as well. Irrespective of the curation issues, I thought this would be of interest to the community, as it’s a completely new species, and not just a split or a lump of existing taxa.

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to my knowledge, there are no locked taxa that exist any more

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Here’s a New York Times article on the bird:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/science/birds-dodo-slaty-masked-tinamou.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.Ezw3.Uv43pRZSBZHg&smid=url-share

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