Numida Meleagris chart (helmeted Guinea fowl)

[Guinea Goonie]

I was wondering though a site on Guineas and found this chart.

I found it pretty interesting and thought I would share it with you

all that are interested in Guineas.

I did not know there were so many types !!

 

[damselfish]

All right, I'm old enough to remember the Coneheads sketch from Saturday Night Live...does Reichenowi look familiar to anyone else?

Thanks for the pic, it really is interesting.

 

[chseeads]

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LOL...before I scrolled down and read your post, I was sitting there thinking, "It's the coneheads!" and was getting ready to post something about it.....lol

 

[sred98]

Too funny! I wonder if they are that tall in person?

Shelly

 

[chseeads]

 

[Guinea Goonie]

I think the sabyi is the "domestic" Guinea that we all have running about.

Thanks for the pic of the reichenowi !! I know these guys are fairly rare and expensive.

Here is a pic of the damarensis:

Anyone have pics of the other two ?

The somaliensis or the matrata ??

 

[racuda]

mitrata

 

[chseeads]

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Its head knot looks like a big cashew...lol

 

[racuda]

somaliensis

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Here is a note on classification of Guinea fowl I found:

Classification. Belshaw (1985) has classified guinea fowl as order Galliformes, family Numididae, but Howard and Moore (1984) placed them in family Phasianidae and subfamily Numidinae. There are four genera (Agelastes, Guttera, Numida, Acryllium) comprising seven species. Genus Numida consists of a single polytypic species meleagris and 22 subspecies. Crowe (1985) has used a simpler classification of Numida meleagris involving nine well marked subspecies which fall into thress groupings:

West African - N. m. galeata and sabyi
East African - N. m. meleagris and somaliensis
Central-South African - N. m. reichenowi, mitrata, marungensis, papillosa, and Coronata.

So it looks like the sabyi are W. African, the somaliensis E. African and the mitrata, reichenowi are Central-S. Africa.

Than leaves the damarensis to figure out.