Quail-plover
Ortyxelos meiffrenii(Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
English (US) Quail-plover
The Quail-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii) 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 Turnicidae (Buttonquail) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: discontinuously distributed Sahel of sub-Saharan AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ortyxelos meiffrenii
- Family
- Turnicidae (Buttonquail)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Quail-plover
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Turnix Meiffrenii
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
- Type locality
- Senegal.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 35 p.49
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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