Spotted Sandgrouse
Pterocles senegallus(Linnaeus, C, 1771)
English (US) Spotted Sandgrouse
The Spotted Sandgrouse (Pterocles senegallus) 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 Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse) in the order Pterocliformes.
Range: desert of sub-Saharan Africa and Arabian Peninsula to western IndiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pterocles senegallus
- Family
- Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse)
- Order
- Pterocliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Spotted Sandgrouse
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1771)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tetrao senegallus
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1771)
- Type locality
- Senegal, error, Algeria accepted as type locality by Hartert, Nov. Zool., 31, 1924, p. 7.
- Original description
- Mantissa plantarum altera generum editionis VI et specierum editionis II p.526
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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