| Hartlaub's spurfowl | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | Pternistis |
| Species: | P. hartlaubi
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| Binomial name | |
| Pternistis hartlaubi (Barbosa du Bocage, 1869)
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geographic distribution
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Hartlaub's spurfowl or Hartlaub's francolin (Pternistis hartlaubi) is a species of bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is endemic to the escarpment zone of Namibia and Angola. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub.[2]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Pternistis hartlaubi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22678799A92788815. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678799A92788815.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 180–159–160.