Black-breasted Buttonquail Turnix melanogaster Scientific name definitions
- VU Vulnerable
- Names (19)
- Monotypic
Stephen Debus and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated February 13, 2016
Text last updated February 13, 2016
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | guatlla pintada pitnegra |
| Czech | perepel queenslandský |
| Dutch | Zwartborstvechtkwartel |
| English | Black-breasted Buttonquail |
| English (United States) | Black-breasted Buttonquail |
| French | Turnix à poitrine noire |
| French (France) | Turnix à poitrine noire |
| German | Schwarzbrust-Laufhühnchen |
| Japanese | ムナグロミフウズラ |
| Norwegian | svartbrystspringvaktel |
| Polish | przepiórnik czarnopierśny |
| Russian | Черногрудая трёхперстка |
| Serbian | Crnogruda prepeličica |
| Slovak | prepeľovec čiernoprsý |
| Spanish | Torillo Pechinegro |
| Spanish (Spain) | Torillo pechinegro |
| Swedish | svartbröstad springhöna |
| Turkish | Kara Göğüslü Bıldırcınyelvesi |
| Ukrainian | Триперстка чорновола |
Turnix melanogaster (Gould, 1837)
PROTONYM:
Hemipodius melanogaster
Gould, 1837. The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands pt2, pl.31 fig.2.
TYPE LOCALITY:
New South Wales = Moreton Bay, Sydney, apud Mathews.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- TURNIX
- melanogaster / melanogastra / melanogastris / melanogastrus
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Black-breasted Buttonquail
