Stripe-faced Wood-Quail

Stripe-faced Wood-Quail / Odontophorus balliviani

Stripe-faced Wood-Quail

Here the details of the Stripe-faced Wood-Quail named bird below:

SCI Name:  Odontophorus balliviani
Protonym:  Odontophorus Balliviani Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt14 no.162 p.69
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Odontophoridae /
Taxonomy Code:  sfwqua1
Type Locality:  Forests of Cocapata, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1846
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ODONTOPHORUS
(Odontophoridae; Ϯ Marbled Wood Quail O. gujanensis) Gr. οδοντοφορος odontophoros  bearing teeth  < οδους odous, οδοντος odontos  tooth; φερω pherō  to carry; "188. TOCRO, Odontophorus.  Tetrao, Linn. Gm.  Perdix, Lath.  Bec nu à la base, convexe en dessus, très-comprimé, crochu vers le bout; mandibule inférieure bidentée près la pointe. — Orbites et lorum nus. — Queue arrondie. — Rectrices 12.    Esp. Tocro, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Odontophorus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 51. Type, by monotypy, "Tocro," Buffon = Tetrao gujanensis Gmelin." (Peters 1934, II, 51).
Var. Odonthophorus, Dentophorus (L. dens, dentis  tooth).
Synon. Strophiortyx.

balliviani
Gen. José Ballivián y Segurola (1804-1852) Bolivian Army, statesman, President 1841-1847 (Odontophorus).