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Buttonquails (Turnicidae)

Barred Buttonquail (Turnix suscitator) - HBW 3, p. 54

French: Turnix combattant German: Bindenlaufhühnchen Spanish: Torillo Batallador
Other common names: Common(!)/Dusky/Indian/Philippine(!) Buttonquail

Taxonomy: Tetrao Suscitator Gmelin, 1789, Java.
Race powelli has on occasion been considered sufficiently distinct to merit separate species status, and is undoubtedly the most distinctive subspecies. Race interrumpens doubtfully distinct from blakistoni; validity of race baweanus sometimes questioned, due to similarity with Javan suscitator. Birds of Sumatran zone sometimes receive different subspecific designations: those of N Sumatra have been placed in race atrogularis; those of C Sumatra have been awarded separate race, machetes; and those of Belitung I sometimes awarded separate race, .. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Tetrao Suscitator Gmelin, 1789, Java.
Race powelli has on occasion been considered sufficiently distinct to merit separate species status, and is undoubtedly the most distinctive subspecies. Race interrumpens doubtfully distinct from blakistoni; validity of race baweanus sometimes questioned, due to similarity with Javan suscitator. Birds of Sumatran zone sometimes receive different subspecific designations: those of N Sumatra have been placed in race atrogularis; those of C Sumatra have been awarded separate race, machetes; and those of Belitung I sometimes awarded separate race, kuiperi; however, no clear patterns of geographical variation, and all three populations probably best retained in nominate suscitator. Eighteen subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • taigoor (Sykes, 1832) - India.
  • leggei Stuart Baker, 1920 - Sri Lanka.
  • plumbipes (Hodgson, 1837) - Nepal, Sikkim, Bangladesh and Assam E to NE Myanmar.

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  • taigoor (Sykes, 1832) - India.
  • leggei Stuart Baker, 1920 - Sri Lanka.
  • plumbipes (Hodgson, 1837) - Nepal, Sikkim, Bangladesh and Assam E to NE Myanmar.
  • bengalensis Blyth, 1852 - lower W Bengal (India).
  • okinavensis Phillips, 1947 - S Kyushu and Makenoshima I (Japan) S to Ryukyu Is.
  • rostrata Swinhoe, 1865 - Taiwan.
  • blakistoni (Swinhoe, 1871) - Myanmar and N Vietnam to S China and Hainan.
  • pallescens Robinson & Stuart Baker, 1928 - SC Myanmar.
  • thai Deignan, 1946 - C Thailand.
  • interrumpens Robinson & Stuart Baker, 1928 - peninsular Myanmar and Thailand.
  • atrogularis (Eyton, 1839) - Malay Peninsula.
  • suscitator (Gmelin, 1789) - Sumatra, Belitung I and Bangka I to Java and Bali.
  • baweanus Hoogerwerf, 1962 - Bawean I (Java).
  • fasciata Temminck, 1815 - Luzon S to Mindoro, Sibuyan and Masbate (N Philippines).
  • haynaldi Blasius, 1888 - Palawan and Calamian Group (W Philippines).
  • nigrescens Tweeddale, 1878 - Panay and nearby islands S to Negros and Cebu (CE Philippines).
  • rufilata Wallace, 1865 - Sulawesi.
  • powelli Guillemard, 1885 - Lombok, Sumbawa, Sangeang, Flores, Lomblen and Alor (Lesser Sundas).
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