Black-fronted spurfowl

The black-fronted spurfowl (Pternistis atrifrons) is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is a large species of francolin.[2] It is endemic to Ethiopia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the chestnut-naped spurfowl (Pternistis castaneicollis).

Black-fronted spurfowl
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Pternistis
Species:
P. atrifrons
Binomial name
Pternistis atrifrons
(Conover, 1930)
Geographic distribution shown in green
Synonyms

Pternistis castaneicollis atrifrons

Taxonomy

The black-fronted spurfowl was described in 1930 by the American amateur ornithologist Boardman Conover from a specimen collected in the mountains around Mega in the south of Ethiopia near the border with Kenya. He coined the binomial name Francolinus atrifons.[3] The species is now placed in the genus Pternistis that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler in 1832.[4][5] The specific epithet atrifrons combines the Latin ater meaning "black" and frons meaning "forehead".[6] The black-fronted spurfowl was formerly considered a subspecies of the chestnut-naped spurfowl (Pternistis castaneicollis).[7] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Pternistis atrifrons". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2018: e.T22728235A94975883. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-3.RLTS.T22728235A94975883.en. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. Dunning Jr., John B. (1992). CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-4258-5.
  3. Conover, Boardman (1930). "A new species of francolin from southern Abyssinia". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 43: 3–4.
  4. Wagler, Johann Georg (1832). "Neue Sippen und Gattungen der Säugthiere und Vögel". Isis von Oken (in German and Latin). cols 1218–1235 [1229].
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pheasants, partridges, francolins". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  6. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  7. Töpfer, T.; Podsiadlowski, L.; Gedeon, K. (2014). "Rediscovery of the black-fronted francolin Pternistis (castaneicollis) atrifrons (Conover, 1930) (Aves: Galliformes: Phasianidae) with notes on biology, taxonomy and conservation" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 64 (2): 261–271.


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