Yellow-legged Buttonquail
Turnix tankiBlyth, E, 1843
English (US) Yellow-legged Buttonquail
The Yellow-legged Buttonquail (Turnix tanki) 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.
- Scientific name
- Turnix tanki
- Family
- Turnicidae (Buttonquail)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Yellow-legged Buttonquail
- Described by
- Blyth, E, 1843
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Turnix tanki tanki
- Turnix tanki blanfordii
Taxonomic history
- Described by
- Blyth, E, 1843
- Type locality
- No locality = Bengal, based on drawing by Buchanan Hamilton)
- Original description
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 12, pt.1, no.134 p.180 bis
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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