Vulturine Guineafowl
Acryllium vulturinum(Hardwicke, T, 1834)
English (US) Vulturine Guineafowl
The Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Numididae (Guineafowl) in the order Galliformes.
Range: arid acacia scrub of southern Ethiopia and Somalia to northeastern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Acryllium vulturinum
- Family
- Numididae (Guineafowl)
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Vulturine Guineafowl
- Described by
- (Hardwicke, T, 1834)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Numida vulturina
- Described by
- (Hardwicke, T, 1834)
- Type locality
- West Africa, error = Tsavo, Kenya Colony, proposed by Friedmann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 153, 1930, p. 136.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.2, no.18 p.52
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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