Quail-plover
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The quail-plover, lark buttonquail or lark-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii) is a small ground-living bird in the buttonquail family Turnicidae that is found in the Sahel region of Africa and in a disjunct region of East Africa. It is the only species placed in the genus Ortyxelos.[2]
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Quail-plover | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Turnicidae |
Genus: | Ortyxelos Vieillot, 1825 |
Species: | O. meiffrenii |
Binomial name | |
Ortyxelos meiffrenii (Vieillot, 1819) | |
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