Common Quail Coturnix coturnix Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (48)
- Monotypic
Philip J. K. McGowan, Guy M. Kirwan, Eduardo de Juana, and Peter F. D. Boesman
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated May 13, 2016
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated May 13, 2016
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Afrikaans | Afrikaanse Kwartel |
Albanian | Shkurta |
Arabic | سمان شائع- فري |
Armenian | Լոր |
Asturian | Parpayar común |
Azerbaijani | Adi bildirçin |
Basque | Galeperra |
Bulgarian | Пъдпъдък |
Catalan | Guatlla comuna |
Chinese (SIM) | 西鹌鹑 |
Croatian | prepelica |
Czech | křepelka polní |
Danish | Vagtel |
Dutch | Kwartel |
English | Common Quail |
English (United States) | Common Quail |
Faroese | Vaktil |
Finnish | viiriäinen |
French | Caille des blés |
French (French Guiana) | Caille des blés |
Galician | Paspallás común |
German | Wachtel |
Greek | (Κοινό) Ορτύκι |
Hebrew | שליו נודד |
Hungarian | Fürj |
Icelandic | Kornhæna |
Italian | Quaglia |
Japanese | ヨーロッパウズラ |
Latvian | Paipala |
Lithuanian | Putpelė |
Mongolian | Эгэл бөднө |
Norwegian | vaktel |
Persian | بلدرچین |
Polish | przepiórka |
Portuguese (Angola) | Codorniz-comum |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Codorniz |
Portuguese (RAA) | Codorniz |
Portuguese (RAM) | Codorniz |
Romanian | Prepeliță |
Russian | Перепел |
Serbian | Prepelica |
Slovak | prepelica poľná |
Slovenian | Prepelica |
Spanish | Codorniz Común |
Spanish (Spain) | Codorniz común |
Swedish | vaktel |
Turkish | Bıldırcın |
Ukrainian | Перепілка звичайна |
Coturnix coturnix (Linnaeus, 1758)
PROTONYM:
Tetrao Coturnix
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturae ed.10 1, p.161.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Europe, Asia, Africa. Restricted type locality, Sweden, ex Fn. Svec.
Definitions
- COTURNIX
- coturnix
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
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