Mount Cameroon spurfowl

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Mount Cameroon spurfowl

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

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Mount Cameroon spurfowl
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)
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Synonyms

Francolinus camerunensis

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

Taxonomy

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]

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