Buttonquail
Turnix
Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of ground birds, Turnicidae, in the order Charadriiformes. Despite their name and resemblance, they bear no taxonomic relationship to Old World quail of the tribe Coturnicini under the order Galliformes, including the species often called "button quail".
There are 18 species in two genera, with most species placed in the genus Turnix and a single species in the genus Ortyxelos. They inhabit warm, tropical grasslands of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and New Guinea.
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 17 known species
Barred Buttonquail
speciesTurnix suscitator
Painted Buttonquail
speciesTurnix varius
Common Buttonquail
speciesTurnix sylvaticus
Little Buttonquail
speciesTurnix velox
Madagascar Buttonquail
speciesTurnix nigricollis
Black-breasted Buttonquail
speciesTurnix melanogaster
Red-backed Buttonquail
speciesTurnix maculosus
Red-chested Buttonquail
speciesTurnix pyrrhothorax
Yellow-legged Buttonquail
speciesTurnix tanki
Fynbos Buttonquail
speciesTurnix hottentottus
Spotted Buttonquail
speciesTurnix ocellatus
Black-rumped Buttonquail
speciesTurnix nanus
Chestnut-backed Buttonquail
speciesTurnix castanotus
Sumba Buttonquail
speciesTurnix everetti
Buff-breasted Buttonquail
speciesTurnix olivii
Luzon Buttonquail
speciesTurnix worcesteri
New Caledonian Buttonquail
speciesTurnix novaecaledoniae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Introductory Book
Michael Scot · 1350 · p.186
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.568
History of Animals, Book I: On Viviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1554 · p.524
Valeriano: Hieroglyphica (1575)
Pierio Valeriano · 1556 · p.362
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica
Willem Piso · 1658 · p.467
Noah's Ark
Athanasius Kircher · 1675 · p.134
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Turnix in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 20864.