Grey-breasted spurfowl
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The grey-breasted spurfowl or grey-breasted francolin (Pternistis rufopictus) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It is found only in Tanzania.
The grey-breasted spurfowl was described by the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow in 1887 and given its current binomial name Pternistis rufopictus.[1] The specific epithet combines the Latin rufus meaning "red" and pictus meaning "painted".[2] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2019 found that the grey-breasted spurfowl is sister to the red-necked spurfowl.[3] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[4]
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