The family TURNICIDAE comprises seventeen Buttonquails in the genus Turnix; and one Quail-Plover in its own genus – Ortyxelos.
Family: TURNICIDAE (Gray 1840).
Genera:
- Turnix – Greek; Abbreviation of Coturnix meaning quail (Bonnaterre 1791).
- Ortyxelos – Greek; ortux quail; helos marsh (Vieillot 1825).
- Europe; Common Buttonquail.
- Asia; Common, Red-backed, Yellow-legged, Spotted, Barred, Sumba, and Luzon Buttonquail.
- Africa; Common, Black-rumped, Hottentot and Madagascar Buttonquail and Quail-Plover.
- Australasia; Red-backed, Black-breasted, New Caledonia, Painted, Buff-breasted, Chestnut-backed, Red-chested and Little Buttonquail.
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus (‘Tetrao sylvaticus’ Desfontaines 1789)
∗ T. s. sylvaticus (Desfontaines 1789)
∗ T. s. lepurana (Smith 1836)
∗ T. s. dussumier (Temminck 1828)
∗ T. s. davidi (Delacour & Jabouille 1930)
∗ T. s. whiteheadi (Ogilvie-Grant 1897)
∗ T. s. bartelsorum (Neumann 1929)
∗ T. s. nigrorum (DuPont 1976)
∗ T. s. celestinoi (McGregor 1907)
∗ T. s. suluensis (Mearns 1905)
- Red-backed Buttonquail T. maculosus (‘Hemipodius maculosus’ Temminck 1815)
∗ T. m. beccarii (Salvadori 1875)
∗ T. m. kinneari (Neumann 1939)
∗ T. m. obiensis (Sutter 1955)
∗ T. m. floresianus (Sutter 1955)
∗ T. m. sumbanus (Sutter 1955)
∗ T. m. savuensis (Sutter 1955)
∗ T. m. maculosus (Temminck 1815)
∗ T. m. saturatus (Forbes 1882)
∗ T. m. furvus (Parkes 1949)
∗ T. m. giluwensis (Sims 1954)
∗ T. m. horsbrughi (Ingram 1909
∗ T. m. mayri (Sutter 1955)
∗ T. m. salomonis (Mayr 1938)
∗ T. m. melanotus (Gould 1837)
- Yellow-legged Buttonquail T. tanki (Blyth 1843)
∗ T. t. tanki (Blyth 1843)
∗ T. t. blanfordii (Blyth 1863)
- Black-rumped Buttonquail T. nanus (‘Hemipodius nanus’ Sundevall 1850)
- Hottentot Buttonquail T. hottentottus ( Temminck 1815)
- Spotted Buttonquail T. ocellatus (‘Oriolus ocellatus’ Scopoli 1786)
∗ T. o. benguetensis (Parkes 1968)
∗ T. o. ocellatus (Scopoli 1786)
- Barred Buttonquail T. suscitator (‘Tetrao Suscitator’ Gmelin 1789)
∗ T. s. taigoor (Sykes 1832)
∗ T. s. bengalensis (Blyth 1852)
∗ T. s. plumbipes (Hodgson 1837)
∗ T. s. leggei (Baker 1920)
∗ T. s. okinavensis (Phillips 1947)
∗ T. s. rostratus (Swinhoe 1865)
∗ T. s. blakistoni (Swinhoe 1871)
∗ T. s. pallescens (Robinson & Baker 1928)
∗ T. s. thai (Deignan 1946)
∗ T. s. atrogularis (Eyton 1839)
∗ T. s. suscitator (J. F. Gmelin 1789)
∗ T. s. fasciatus (Temminck 1815)
∗ T. s. haynaldi (A. W. H. Blasius 1888)
∗ T. s. nigrescens (Tweeddale 1878)
∗ T. s. rufilatus (Wallace 1865)
∗ T. s. powelli (Guillemard 1885)
- Madagascan Buttonquail T. nigricollis (‘Tetrao nigricolli Gmelin 1789)
- Black-breasted Buttonquail T. melanogaster (‘Hemipodius melanogaster’ Gould 1837)
- Painted Buttonquail T. varius (‘Perdix varia’ Latham 1801)
∗ T. v. varius (Latham 1801)
∗ T. v. novaecaledoniae (Ogilvie-Grant, 1889)
∗ T. v. scintillans (Gould 1845)
- Buff-breasted Buttonquail T. olivii (Robinson 1900)
- Chestnut-backed Buttonquail T. castanotus (‘Hemipodius castanotus’ Gould 1840)
- Red-chested Buttonquail T.pyrrhothorax (‘Hemipodius pyrrhothorax’ Gould 1841)
- Sumba Buttonquail T. everetti (Hartert 1898)
- Luzon Buttonquail T. worcesteri (McGregor 1904)
- Little Buttonquail T. velox (‘Hemipodius velox’ Gould 1841)
- Quail-plover Ortyxelos meiffrenii (‘Turnix Meiffrenii’ Vieillot 1819)
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