Fynbos Buttonquail
Turnix hottentottusTemminck, CJ, 1815
English (US) Fynbos Buttonquail
The Fynbos Buttonquail (Turnix hottentottus) 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: mountains of South Africa (southwestern Cape Province to Port Elizabeth)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Turnix hottentottus
- Family
- Turnicidae (Buttonquail)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Fynbos Buttonquail
- Described by
- Temminck, CJ, 1815
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Temminck, CJ, 1815
- Type locality
- Cape of Good Hope.
- Original description
- Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons et des gallinacés, accompagné de planches anatomiques 3 p.636
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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