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Mount Cameroon spurfowl

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Mount Cameroon spurfowl
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae
Genus:	Pternistis
Species:	P. camerunensis
Binomial name
*Pternistis camerunensis* (Alexander, 1909)

geographic distribution
Synonyms
Francolinus camerunensis

The Mount Cameroon spurfowl (Pternistis camerunensis) is a bird species in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is found only in Cameroon.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy[edit]

The Mount Cameroon spurfowl was described in 1909 by the British Army Officer Boyd Alexander from a specimen collected on Mount Cameroon. He coined the binomial name Francolinus camerunensis.^[2] The species is now placed in the genus Pternistis that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler in 1832.^[3]^[4] The species is considered to be monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.^[4]

^ Alexander, Boyd (1909). "'Francolinus camerunensis sp. n." Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 25: 25.

^ Wagler, Johann Georg (1832). "Neue Sippen und Gattungen der Säugthiere und Vögel". Isis von Oken (in German and Latin). cols 1218–1235 [1229].

^ ^a ^b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pheasants, partridges, francolins". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 February 2020.

Pternistis camerunensis

Francolinus camerunensis

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