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Helmeted Guineafowl

Numida meleagris

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Numididae

The helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guinea fowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida. It is native to Africa, mainly south of the Sahara, and has been widely introduced, as a domesticated species, into the West Indies, North America, Colombia, Brazil, Australia and Europe. Taxonomy The helmeted guinea fowl was formally described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Phasianus meleagris.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 870Brazil · 822United Kingdom · 407Belgium · 88Spain · 63Germany · 62Italy · 38France · 24Peru · 7Switzerland · 4