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
- Family
- Turnicidae (Buttonquail)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-rumped Buttonquail
- Described by
- (Sundevall, CJ, 1850)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic 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.
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