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Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite

Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis] (= Colinus virginianus) (Linnaeus, C 1758)




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Classification
Order:
  Galliformes
Family:
  Odontophoridae
Genus:
   Colinus
Scientific:
  Colinus virginianus


Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.161

Protonym:
  Tetrao virginianus

Type locality:
  'America' = Virginia.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/180/mode/1up


Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  A502548D13FECC62

Avibase ID:
  avibase-A502548D

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/A502548D


Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 175863

Geographic range:

  • Colinus virginianus: eastern USA to western Guatemala
  • Colinus virginianus virginianus: Atlantic coast of USA (Virginia to northern Florida and southeastern Alabama)
  • Colinus virginianus marilandicus: northeastern USA (southeastern Maine to Pennsylvania and central Virginia)
  • Colinus virginianus mexicanus: eastern USA west of Atlantic seaboard to Great Plains
  • Colinus virginianus cubanensis: Cuba including Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Pines; south of western Cuba)
  • Colinus virginianus texanus: southwestern Texas (southern USA) to northern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas)
  • Colinus virginianus [floridanus or insulanus]: peninsular Florida (southeastern USA)
  • Colinus virginianus taylori: South Dakota to northern Texas, western Missouri, and northwestern Arkansas (central USA)
  • Colinus virginianus maculatus: eastern Mexico (central Tamaulipas to northern Veracruz and southeastern San Luis Potosí)
  • Colinus virginianus aridus: eastern Mexico (central and west-central Tamaulipas to southeastern San Luis Potosí)
  • Colinus virginianus graysoni: west-central Mexico (southern Nayarit to Morelos, southern Hidalgo, and San Luis Potosí)
  • Colinus virginianus nigripectus: eastern Mexico (Puebla, Morelos, and México)
  • Colinus virginianus pectoralis: southeastern Mexico (east slopes of mountains of central Veracruz)
  • Colinus virginianus godmani: lowlands of southeastern Mexico (Veracruz)
  • Colinus virginianus minor: southeastern Mexico (northeastern Chiapas and adjacent Tabasco)
  • Colinus virginianus thayeri: southern Mexico (northeastern Oaxaca)
  • Colinus virginianus coyoleos: Pacific coast of southern Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas)
  • Colinus virginianus ridgwayi: northwestern Mexico (north-central Sonora); extirpated in Arizona (USA)
  • Colinus virginianus atriceps: southern Mexico (interior of western Oaxaca)
  • Colinus virginianus harrisoni: southern Mexico (southwestern Oaxaca)
  • Colinus virginianus salvini: southern Mexico (coastal southern Chiapas)
  • Colinus virginianus [insignis or nelsoni]: southern Mexico (southern Chiapas) and adjacent Guatemala
  • Colinus nigrogularis: dry scrub and fields of lowlands of Yucatán Peninsula (eastern Mexico) including Petén (northern Guatemala) and to southern Belize; disjunctly eastern Honduras and northeastern Nicaragua
  • Colinus nigrogularis nigrogularis: Belize and adjacent northern Guatemala
  • Colinus nigrogularis persiccus: southeastern Mexico (Progreso area of Yucatán Peninsula)
  • Colinus nigrogularis caboti: Yucatán Peninsula (northern Campeche, Yucatán, and northern Quintana Roo, southeastern Mexico)
  • Colinus nigrogularis segoviensis: eastern Honduras and northeastern Nicaragua
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English:
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite
French:
Colin de Virginie ou C. à gorge noire


Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite ( Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis])

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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Catalan: Colí de Virgínia
Czech: Krepel virginský
Danish: Bobwhite
German: Virginiawachtel
English: Northern Bobwhite, Northern or Black-throated Bobwhite
Spanish: codorniz cotuí, Colín de Virginia
Spanish (Cuba): Codorniz
Spanish (Dominican Rep.): Cordoníz
Spanish (Mexico): codorniz cotuí
Estonian: nurmvutt (põhja-nurmvutt)
Finnish: Peltoviiriäinen
French: Colin de Virginie, Colin de Virginie ou C. à gorge noire
Irish: Gearg bhabaight
Haitian Creole French: Kay
Hebrew: שלו אמריקאי
Hungarian: bozótfürj
Icelandic: Tannhæna
Italian: Colino della Virginia
Japanese (romaji): korin'uzura
Japanese: コリンウズラ
Scientific: Colinus [virginianus or nigrogularis], Colinus virginianus, Colinus virginianus virginianus, Tetrao virginianus
Lithuanian: Virginvištė
Dutch: Boomkwartel
Norwegian: Nordkrattvaktel
Polish: przepiór wirginijski
Portuguese: Codorniz da Virgínia
Russian: Виргинская перепелка
Slovak: Prepelka hnedá
Slovenian: virginijski kolin
Swedish: Vitstrupig vaktel
Turkish: Virjinya bıldırcını
Ukrainian: Перепелиця віргинська
Chinese: 山齿鹑
Chinese (Traditional): 山齒鶉

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