New Caledonian Buttonquail
Turnix novaecaledoniaeOgilvie-Grant, WR, 1889
English (US) New Caledonian Buttonquail
The New Caledonian Buttonquail (Turnix novaecaledoniae) 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: formerly New Caledonia; probably extinct, not reported with certainty since 1889Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Turnix novaecaledoniae
- Family
- Turnicidae (Buttonquail)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- New Caledonian Buttonquail
- Described by
- Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1889
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Turnix novae caledoniae
- Described by
- Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1889
- Type locality
- New Caledonia.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.6, vol.1, no.4 p.599 (index), name missing from p.474
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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