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NUMIDIDAE - Guineafowl1 (4:6)
NUMIDA Linnaeus, 1764 M - Phasianus meleagris Linnaeus, 1758; type by monotypy  2
Numida meleagris Helmeted Guineafowl
1†? sabyi E. Hartert, 1919 NW Morocco
1 galeatus Pallas, 17673 vSenegal to S Chad, south to N Angola
2 meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758)4 E Chad to N and W Ethiopia, south to N DR Congo, Uganda and N Kenya5
2 somaliensis Neumann, 1899 vE and S Ethiopia, Somalia, NE Kenya
2 reichenowi Ogilvie-Grant, 1894 S Kenya to C Tanzania
3 mitratus (Pallas, 1764)6 αvE Kenya, E and S Tanzania to E Botswana, N South Africa and S Mozambique
3 marungensis Schalow, 18847 vS DR Congo to W Angola and Zambia
3 papillosus Reichenow, 18948 vS Angola, Botswana, N and C Namibia
3 coronatus J.H. Gurney Sr., 18689 vN and SE South Africa
AGELASTES Bonaparte, 1850 M - Agelastes meleagrides Bonaparte, 1850; type by monotypy  
Agelastes meleagrides   Bonaparte, 1850 White-breasted Guineafowl
iSE Sierra Leone to SW Ghana
Agelastes niger 10  (Cassin, 1857) Black Guineafowl
vSE Nigeria to C DR Congo
ACRYLLIUM G.R. Gray, 1840 N - Numida vulturina Hardwicke, 1834; type by original designation  
Acryllium vulturinum   (Hardwicke, 1834) Vulturine Guineafowl
vS Ethiopia, S Somalia, E Kenya, NE Tanzania
GUTTERA Wagler, 1832 F - Numida cristata Pallas, 1767; type by monotypy = Guttera pallasi Stone, 1912  
Guttera plumifera11 Plumed Guineafowl
plumifera (Cassin, 1857) vCameroon to Gabon and N Angola (Cabinda)
schubotzi Reichenow, 1912 N DR Congo
Guttera pucherani Crested Guineafowl
verreauxi (Elliot, 1870)12 Guinea to SW Nigeria; E PR Congo to W Kenya and C Tanzania [Elliot, 1870 #1498]
sclateri Reichenow, 1898 SE Nigeria and SW Cameroon
pucherani (Hartlaub, 1861) αSW Somalia, E Kenya, NE and E Tanzania, Zanzibar, Tambatu I.
edouardi (Hartlaub, 1867)13 E Zambia to S Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal
barbata Ghigi, 190514 vSE Tanzania, N Mozambique, Malawi
schoutedeni Chapin, 192315 Middle Congo basin to E DR Congo and NE Angola
kathleenae C.M.N. White, 194316 NW Zambia to E Angola and S DR Congo [White, 1943 #4164]
1 The sequence of genera follows Kimball et al. (2011) [Kimball, 2011 #12785].
2 For date change see I.C.Z.N. (1987) [I.C.Z.N., 1987 #4674] based on Opinion 67 (I.C.Z.N., 1916) [I.C.Z.N., 1916 #6614].
3 Includes marchei, callewaerti, blancoui Grote, 1936 [Grote, 1936 #1832], and implicitly strasseni and bannermani Frade, 1976 [Frade, 1976 #1593]; see Martínez (1994) [Martínez, 1994 #2515].
4 Includes major, macroceras, toruensis, intermedius and uhehensis; see Martínez (1994) [Martínez, 1994 #2515].
5 Introduced to Cape Verde Is., São Tomé, Príncipe, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, NE Australia, New Zealand, Kermadec Is., Hispaniola, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Barbuda and Virgin Is. (St. Croix).
6 For changes to date and citation, see Rookmaaker & Pieters (2000) [Rookmaaker, 2000 #10837].
7 Includes maximus, rikwae, and bodalyae Boulton, 1934 [Boulton, 1934 #449]; see Martínez (1994) [Martínez, 1994 #2515].
8 Includes mulondensis Monard, 1934 [Monard, 1934 #2702]; see White (1965) [White, 1965 #4191]. Included in damarensis in Crowe et al. (1986) [Crowe, 1986 #1098] and in Martínez (1994) [Martínez, 1994 #2515] with papillosus in synonymy - but the latter is the prior name. Reasons to avoid its use may exist, but have not been traced.
9 Includes limpopoensis; see Ratcliffe in Hockey et al. (2005) [Hockey, 2005 #12724].
10 Peters (1934) [Peters, 1934 #3007] listed this in the monotypic genus Phasidus; that was submerged in Agelastes by White (1951) [White, 1951 #13989].
11 Considered to form a superspecies with G. pucherani by Sibley & Monroe (1990) [Sibley, 1990 #3636].
12 Includes chapini, sethsmithi and pallasi; see Martínez (1994) [Martínez, 1994 #2515].
13 Includes symonsi; see White (1965) [White, 1965 #4191].
14 Includes suahelica; see White (1965) [White, 1965 #4191].
15 For treatment as a separate subspecies from verreauxi, see White (1965) [White, 1965 #4191].
16 For treatment as a separate subspecies from verreauxi see Dowsett et al. (2008) [Dowsett, 2008 #12725].
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