Plumed Guineafowl
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| Plumed Guineafowl | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Numididae |
| Genus: | Guttera |
| Species: | G. plumifera |
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| Guttera plumifera Cassin, 1857 | |
The Plumed Guineafowl (Guttera plumifera) is a member of the guineafowl bird family. It is found in humid primary forest in Central Africa. It resembles some subspecies of the Crested Guineafowl, but has a straighter (not curled) and higher crest, and a relatively long wattle on either side of the bill. The bare skin on the face and neck is entirely dull grey-blue in the western nominate subspecies, while there are a few orange patches among the grey-blue in the eastern subspecies schubotzi.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are two recognized subspecies:
- G. p. plumifera (Cassin, 1857) - Cameroon Plumed Guineafowl - southern Cameroon to Congo Basin, northern Gabon, and northern Angola
- G. p. schubotzi (Reichenow, 1912) - Schubotz's Plumed Guineafowl - northern Zaire to East African Rift and forests west of Lake Tanganyika
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Guttera plumifera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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