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Greater Rhea
Rhea americana (Linnaeus, 1758)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Aves - birds »  order Struthioniformes »  family Rheidae - rheas

Other names

= Common Rhea

IUCN category:Near Threatened

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Subordinated taxa

Number of records: 5

subspecies Rhea americana albescens Lynch & Holmberg, 1878
subspecies Rhea americana americana (Linnaeus, 1758)
subspecies Rhea americana araneipes Brodkorb, 1938
subspecies Rhea americana intermedia Rothschild & Chubb, 1914
subspecies Rhea americana nobilis Brodkorb, 1939

Links and literature

EN Bird Life 5.1 [2] [as Rhea americana (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Bird Life [http://www.birdlife.org]
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/26
EN Classification of the bird species of South America 17 March 2013 [as Rhea americana]
Remsen J. V. Jr., Cadena C. D., Jaramillo A., Nores M., Pacheco J. F., Pérez-Emán J., Robbins M. B., Stiles F. G., Stotz D. F. and Zimmer K. J. (2002-2013): Classification of the bird species of South America [http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBa...], American Ornithologists' Union
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/26
EN IOC World Bird List 3.3 [as Rhea americana (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Gill F. & Donsker D.: IOC World Bird List [http://www.worldbirdnames.org/]
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/11
CZ Hudec K. et al. (2003): Soustava a české názvosloví ptáků světa, Muzeum Komenského v Přerově. 462 pp. [as Rhea americana (Linnaeus, 1758)]
EN Clements, J. F.: eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world 6.7 [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementsche...], Cornell Lab of Ornithology [as Rhea americana]
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/07

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