Red-backed Buttonquail / Turnix maculosus
Red-backed Buttonquail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Hemipodius maculosus Hist.Nat.Pig.Gallin. 3 p.631,757
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Turnicidae / Turnix
Taxonomy Code: rebbut2
Type Locality: 'New Holland'' = Timor.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1815
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TURNIX
(Turnicidae; Ϯ Striped Buttonquail T. sylvaticus) Curtailment of genus Coturnix Bonnaterre, 1791, quail (reflecting the absence of the rear toe) (cf. "The name Turnix thus signifies a small quail or 'half-quail', again hinting at the notable resemblance between buttonquails and the unrelated (and bigger) quails." (Peacock 2016)); “3e. GENRE. {Turnix. Le bec conique, mince, un peu recourbé: les narines prolongées jusqu'au milieu du bec: la langue entière. ... IIIe. GENRE. TURNIX, Turnix. ... Les pattes divisées en trois doigts & plus courtes que les rectrices: trois doigts nus, posés par devant; il n'y en a point par derrière. ... Ces oiseaux ressemblent aux Cailles par sa forme du corps; mais ils en diffèrent par la structure des pattes et par leurs mœurs. ... *TURNIX D'AFRIQUE. 1. T. Africanus. Cet oiseau, que M. Desfontaines a trouvé sur les côtes de Barbarie, se rapproche du Pluvier par la structure des pattes, qui sont dépourvues du doigt postérieur; mais il a beaucoup de rapport avec la Caille par sa conformation extérieure, son vol & les couleurs de sa livrée. Il est d'un tiers plus petit que le Caille d'Europe. ... *LE TURNIX. 2. T. nigricollis ... Le Turnix ou la Caille de Madagascar, qui est représenté dans les planches enluminées, nº. 171, diffère, à certains égards, de celui qui a été décrir par M. Brisson, quoiqu'ils soient de la même espèce. ... *LE TURNIX DE GIBRALTAR. 3. T. Gibraltarica. ... *LE TURNIX D'ANDALOUSIE 4. T. Andalusica. ... *LE TURNIX DE L'ILE DE LUÇON. 5. T. Luzoniensis. ... Ce Turnix habite l'Ile de Luçon, l'une des Manilles.” (Bonnaterre 1791); "Turnix Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. Méth., Orn., pt. 1, 1791, p. lxxxii, 5. Type, by subsequent designation, Tetrao gibraltaricus Gmelin = Tetrao sylvaticus Desfontaines. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 63.)" (Peters 1934, II, 142). Note that Turnix Rafinesque, 1815, is a replacement name for "Tridactilis" (= Tridactylus) de Lacépède, 1801.
Synon. Alphaturnia, Areortyx, Areoturnix, Austroturnix, Colcloughia, Hemipodius, Marianornis, Ortygis, Ortygodes, Ortyx, Tridactylus.
maculosa / maculosus
L. maculosus spotted < maculare to make spotted < macula spot.
● ex “Patch-necked Humming-bird” of Latham 1787 (syn. Chrysolampis mosquitus).
● ex “Pic de l’Encénade” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 748, fig. 1 (syn. Dendrocopos mixtus).
● ex “Yellow-rumped Fly-catcher” of Edwards 1758, “Ficedula pensilvanica naevia” of Brisson 1760, “Figuier à tête cendrée” of de Buffon 7170-1783, and “Yellow-rumped Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (syn. Dendroica magnolia).
● ex “Hirondelle tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 546, fig. 1 (unident: ?Iridoprocne albiventer).
● ex “Ynambúi” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 327 (Nothura).
● ex “Paloma cobijas manchadas” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 318 (Patagioenas).
● ex “Fauvette tachetée du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 752, fig. 2 (Prinia).
SUBSPECIES
Red-backed Buttonquail (beccarii)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus beccarii
beccariana / beccarianus / beccarii
Dr Odoardo Beccari (1843-1920) Italian botanist, explorer, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea (subsp. Aethopyga siparaja, Alopecoenas, syn. Casuarius casuarius, Cochoa, syn. Cyornis rufigastra, syn. Cyornis superbus, Dicaeum, Drymodes, subsp. Goura victoria, subsp. Micropsitta pusio, Otus, Sericornis, subsp. Turnix maculosus).
Red-backed Buttonquail (kinneari)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus kinneari
kinneari
Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882-1957) British ornithologist at BMNH, Curator of Bombay Natural History Mus. 1907 (syn. Actinodura ramsayi yunnanensis, syn. Ammomanes cinctura arenicolor, subsp. Chloropsis moluccensis, subsp. Cinnyris hellmayri, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, syn. Eremalauda dunni eremodites, subsp. Melidectes belfordi, subsp. Mixornis gularis, syn. Nannus troglodytes nipalensis, subsp. Sasia ochracea, subsp. Sitta carolinensis, Spelaeornis, subsp. Turnix maculosus).
Red-backed Buttonquail (obiensis)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus obiensis
obiense / obiensis / obira
Obi or Obira I., Moluccas, Indonesia.
Red-backed Buttonquail (sumbanus)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus sumbanus
sumbae / sumbaensis / sumbanus
Sumba I., Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
Red-backed Buttonquail (floresianus)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus floresianus
floresiana / floresianus
Flores, Indonesia.
Red-backed Buttonquail (maculosus)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus maculosus
maculosa / maculosus
L. maculosus spotted < maculare to make spotted < macula spot.
● ex “Patch-necked Humming-bird” of Latham 1787 (syn. Chrysolampis mosquitus).
● ex “Pic de l’Encénade” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 748, fig. 1 (syn. Dendrocopos mixtus).
● ex “Yellow-rumped Fly-catcher” of Edwards 1758, “Ficedula pensilvanica naevia” of Brisson 1760, “Figuier à tête cendrée” of de Buffon 7170-1783, and “Yellow-rumped Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (syn. Dendroica magnolia).
● ex “Hirondelle tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 546, fig. 1 (unident: ?Iridoprocne albiventer).
● ex “Ynambúi” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 327 (Nothura).
● ex “Paloma cobijas manchadas” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 318 (Patagioenas).
● ex “Fauvette tachetée du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 752, fig. 2 (Prinia).
Red-backed Buttonquail (savuensis)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus savuensis
savu / savuensis
Sawu I. / Savu, between Sumba and Timor, Lesser Sunda Is., Indonesia.
Red-backed Buttonquail (saturatus)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus saturatus
saturatum / saturatus
L. saturatus richly coloured, darker coloured, intensely coloured < satur, satura rich, copious < satis enough.
● “In my description of this Cuckoo [Cuculus micropterus] ...I considered certain dark ash-coloured specimens to be merely the old birds of the species ...Mr Hodgson, however, thinks differently, having lately forwarded similar examples by the designation C. saturatus” (Blyth 1843) (Cuculus).
Red-backed Buttonquail (furvus)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus furvus
furvus
L. furvus dark, black, dark-coloured.
Red-backed Buttonquail (giluwensis)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus giluwensis
giluwensis
Mt. Giluwe, Papua New Guinea.
Red-backed Buttonquail (horsbrughi)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus horsbrughi
horsbrughi
Charles Bethune Horsbrugh (1874-1952) British naturalist, collector in tropical Africa, North America and New Guinea, aviculturalist (Mark Brown in litt.) (subsp. Falco ruficollis, subsp. Turnix maculosus).
Red-backed Buttonquail (mayri)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus mayri
mayri
Dr Ernst Walter Mayr (1904-2005) German evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, systematist (syn. Aerodramus hirundinaceus, subsp. Amblyornis macgregoriae, subsp. Athene brama, syn. Burhinus oedicnemus indicus, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cincloramphus macrurus, syn. Cinclosoma castanotum, subsp. Culicicapa helianthea, subsp. Ficedula westermanni, subsp. Lewinia pectoralis, subsp. Lonchura spectabilis, subsp. Megalaima virens, syn. Mixornis gularis rubicapilla, subsp. Mulleripicus funebris, syn. Phonygammus keraudrenii purpureoviolaceus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, Ptiloprora, subsp. Ptilorrhoa leucosticta, Rallicula, syn. Rhinortha chlorophaea, subsp. Roraimia adusta, subsp. Sarcophanops steerii, subsp. Tregellasia leucops, subsp. Trugon terrestris, subsp. Turnix maculosus, subsp. Zapornia pusilla).
Red-backed Buttonquail (salomonis)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus salomonis
salomonensis / salomonis
Solomon Is.
Red-backed Buttonquail (melanotus)
SCI Name: Turnix maculosus melanotus
melanotus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; -νωτος -nōtos -backed < νωτον nōton back.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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lowercase: species and subspecies
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‡: 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)