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Black-rumped Buttonquail

Turnix nanus(Sundevall, CJ, 1850)

English (US) Black-rumped Buttonquail

The Black-rumped Buttonquail (Turnix nanus) 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: Ghana to Kenya, Uganda, and southeastern Cape ProvinceRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Turnix nanus
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Black-rumped Buttonquail
Described by
(Sundevall, CJ, 1850)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Hemipodius nanus
Described by
(Sundevall, CJ, 1850)
Type locality
Caffraria inferiore,' types from Durban, Natal.
Original description
Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 7, no.4 p.110

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

See all 18 species of the family Turnicidae