Subgenus Turnix (Ortygodes) Vieillot, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ortygodes Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Paris : Déterville 70 pp. [Date published 14 Apr 1816] [52].

  Type species:

   Ortygodes variegata Vieillot, L.P., 1816 (= Tetrao nigricollis Gmelin, not T. ocellata Scopoli. Ref. Images of the cards in the Richmond Index, Bird Division, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. accessed via http://www.zoonomen.netImages of the cards in the Richmond Index, Bird Division, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. accessed via http://www.zoonomen.net) by original designation, see Ogilvie-Grant, W.R. 1893. Catalogue of the Game Birds (Pterocletes, Gallinae, Opistocomi, Hemipodii) in the collection of the BritishMuseum. London : Trustees, British Museum Vol. 22 pp.xvi+585. [549] (As "La Caille de Madagascar").

  Secondary source:

   Ogilvie-Grant, W.R. 1893. Catalogue of the Game Birds (Pterocletes, Gallinae, Opistocomi, Hemipodii) in the collection of the BritishMuseum. London : Trustees, British Museum Vol. 22 pp.xvi+585. [527].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

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