White-breasted Guineafowl
Agelastes meleagridesBonaparte, CLJL, 1850
English (US) White-breasted Guineafowl
The White-breasted Guineafowl (Agelastes meleagrides) 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: Upper Guinea forest of southeastern Sierra Leone to Ivory Coast and western GhanaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Agelastes meleagrides
- Family
- Numididae (Guineafowl)
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- White-breasted Guineafowl
- Described by
- Bonaparte, CLJL, 1850
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Bonaparte, CLJL, 1850
- Type locality
- No locality given = Gold Coast.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.17, no.199 p.145
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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