Mount Cameroon spurfowl

The Mount Cameroon spurfowl (Pternistis camerunensis) is a bird species in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is found only in Cameroon.

Mount Cameroon spurfowl
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Pternistis
Species:
P. camerunensis
Binomial name
Pternistis camerunensis
(Alexander, 1909)
Geographic distribution shown in green
Synonyms

Francolinus camerunensis

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy

The Mount Cameroon spurfowl was described in 1909 by the British Army Officer Boyd Alexander from a specimen collected on Mount Cameroon. He coined the binomial name Francolinus camerunensis.[2] The species is now placed in the genus Pternistis that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler in 1832.[3][4] The species is considered to be monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[4]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Pternistis camerunensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2016: e.T22678891A92793461. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678891A92793461.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. Alexander, Boyd (1909). "'Francolinus camerunensis sp. n." Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 25: 25.
  3. Wagler, Johann Georg (1832). "Neue Sippen und Gattungen der Säugthiere und Vögel". Isis von Oken (in German and Latin). cols 1218–1235 [1229].
  4. 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.



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