Editing Buttonquail (section)

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Turnix'' was introduced in 1791 by French naturalist in [[Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre|Pierre Bonnaterre]].<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Bonnaterre | first1=Pierre Joseph | author-link=Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre | last2=Vieillot | first2=Louis Pierre  | author2-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1823 | title=Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: Ornithologie | volume=Part 1 | language=French | location=Paris | publisher=Panckoucke | pages=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51114657 lxxxii], [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51114678 5-6] }} Although the title page bears the date of 1823 the section (''livraison'') containing the description was published in 1791. See: {{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | page=78 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 }}</ref> The genus name is an abbreviation of the genus ''[[Coturnix]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=393 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n393/mode/1up }}</ref> The [[type species]] was subsequently designated as the [[common buttonquail]].<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=142 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482955 }}</ref>

The buttonquail family, Turnicidae, was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist [[George Robert Gray]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1840 | title=A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus | location=London | publisher=R. and J.E. Taylor | page=63 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668980 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Bock | first=Walter J. | year=1994 | title=History and Nomenclature of Avian Family-Group Names | series=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | volume= 222 | publisher=American Museum of Natural History | location=New York | pages=112, 178, 237 | url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/830 }}<!--Linked page allows download of the 48MB pdf--></ref> The buttonquails were traditionally placed in [[Gruiformes]] or [[Galliformes]] (the crane and pheasant orders).  The [[Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy]] elevated them to ordinal status as the '''Turniciformes''' and [[Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] to other [[Neoaves]] either because their accelerated rate of [[molecular evolution]] exceeded the limits of sensitivity of [[DNA-DNA hybridization]] or because the authors did not perform the appropriate pairwise comparisons or both.  Morphological, DNA-DNA hybridization and [[DNA sequence|sequence]] data indicate that turnicids correctly belong to the shorebirds ([[Charadriiformes]]).<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Paton TA, Baker AJ, Groth JG, Barrowclough GF|year=2003|title=RAG-1 sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships within charadriiform birds |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=29 |pages=268–78 |doi=10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00098-8 |pmid=13678682 |issue=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Fain, Matthew G. |author2=Houde, Peter |name-list-style=amp |year=2004 |title=Parallel radiations in the primary clades of birds |journal=[[Evolution (journal)|Evolution]] |volume=58 |pages=2558–73 |doi=10.1554/04-235 |url=http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/houde/Parallel_radiations.pdf |pmid=15612298 |issue=11 |s2cid=1296408 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407204436/http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/houde/Parallel_radiations.pdf |archivedate=2013-04-07 }}</ref><ref name=Paton06>{{cite journal |vauthors=Paton TA, Baker AJ|year=2006|title=Sequences from 14 mitochondrial genes provide a well-supported phylogeny of the Charadriiform birds congruent with the nuclear RAG-1 tree|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=39 |pages=657–67 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2006.01.011 |pmid=16531074 |issue=3}} 
</ref> They seem to be an ancient group among these, as indicated by the buttonquail-like [[Early Oligocene]] [[fossil]] ''[[Turnipax]]'' and the collected molecular data.<ref name=Paton06/>