Black-breasted Buttonquail
Turnix melanogaster(Gould, J, 1837)
English (US) Black-breasted Buttonquail
The Black-breasted Buttonquail (Turnix melanogaster) 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: coastal eastern Australia (southeastern Queensland, and formerly northern New South Wales)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Turnix melanogaster
- Family
- Turnicidae (Buttonquail)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Black-breasted Buttonquail
- Described by
- (Gould, J, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Hemipodius melanogaster
- Described by
- (Gould, J, 1837)
- Type locality
- New South Wales = Moreton Bay, Sydney, apud Mathews.
- Original description
- The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands pt2 pl.31 fig.2
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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