Snow Mountain Quail
Synoicus monorthonyx(van Oort, ED, 1910)
English (US) Snow Mountain Quail
The Snow Mountain Quail (Synoicus monorthonyx) 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 Phasianidae (Partridges, Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies) in the order Galliformes.
Range: alpine grassland of Snow Mountains (west-central New Guinea)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Synoicus monorthonyx
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Snow Mountain Quail
- Described by
- (van Oort, ED, 1910)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Anurophasis monorthonyx
- Described by
- (van Oort, ED, 1910)
- Type locality
- Oranje Mts., 3800 met., Dutch New Guinea.
- Original description
- Notes from the Leyden Museum 32 p.212
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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