Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Afrikaans | Gewone Tarentaal |
Asturian | Pintada comñn |
Bulgarian | Шлемоглава токачка |
Catalan | pintada comuna |
Croatian | biserka |
Czech | perlička kropenatá |
Danish | Perlehøne |
Dutch | Helmparelhoen |
English | Helmeted Guineafowl |
English (United States) | Helmeted Guineafowl |
Finnish | helmikana |
French | Pintade de Numidie |
French (France) | Pintade de Numidie |
Galician | Pintada común |
German | Helmperlhuhn |
Greek | Φραγκόκοτα |
Haitian Creole (Haiti) | Pentad Mawon |
Hebrew | פנינית הקסדה |
Hungarian | Sisakos gyöngytyúk |
Icelandic | Perluhæna |
Indonesian | Ayam mutiara |
Italian | Faraona |
Japanese | ホロホロチョウ |
Lithuanian | Patarška |
Norwegian | hjelmperlehøne |
Polish | perlica (zwyczajna) |
Portuguese (Angola) | Pintada da Guiné comum |
Portuguese (Brazil) | galinha-d'angola |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Pintada |
Romanian | Bibilică |
Russian | Шлемоносная цесарка |
Serbian | Biserka |
Slovak | perlička prilbatá |
Slovenian | Pegatka |
Spanish | Pintada Común |
Spanish (Cuba) | Gallina de guinea |
Spanish (Dominican Republic) | Guinea |
Spanish (Puerto Rico) | Guinea Torcaz |
Spanish (Spain) | Pintada común |
Swedish | hjälmpärlhöna |
Thai | ไก่ต๊อกหมวกเหล็ก |
Turkish | Beçtavuğu |
Ukrainian | Цесарка рогата |
Numida meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758)
PROTONYM:
Phasianus Meleagris
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1, p.158.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Africa = Nubia, upper Nile, ex Hasselquist.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- NUMIDA
- numida
- MELEAGRIS
- meleagris
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
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)
Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris Scientific name definitions
Isabel Martínez and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated September 8, 2015
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated September 8, 2015
Revision History
Birds of the World
-
Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
Authors
Isabel Martínez and Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
Martínez, I. and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.helgui.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
-
Last Published Version
- September 8, 2015
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
Authors
Isabel Martínez and Guy M. Kirwan
Revisors
Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
Martínez, I. and G. M. Kirwan (2015). Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.