Afrotis
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Eupodotis afroides - 1820-1860 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ17200059, crop.png
| image_caption = Afrotis in Iconographia Zoologica
| taxon = Afrotis
| authority = Gray, GR, 1855
| type_species = Otis afra{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=37 |title= Otididae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-27}}
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
Afrotis is a genus of bustard in the family Otididae. The genus is endemic to southern Africa, and contains two species. It is sometimes included in the genus Eupodotis.{{Citation | first = Nigel | last = Collar | editor-first = Josep | editor-last = del Hoyo | editor2-first = Andrew | editor2-last = Elliott | editor3-last = Sargatal | editor3-first = Jordi | contribution = Family Otididae (Bustards) | title = Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 3, Hoatzin to Auks | year = 1996 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0001unse/page/240 240–273] | place = Barcelona | publisher = Lynx Edicions | isbn = 84-87334-20-2}}
Species
{{Species table |genus= Afrotis |authority-name=Gray, GR |authority-year=1855 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Southern black korhaan |binomial=Afrotis afra
|image=File:Southern Black Korhaan (Afrotis afra) male (30270325416).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Smith |authority-year=1831 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Western and southern South Africa, from Little Namaqualand to Cape Town and east to Grahamstown
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|range-image-size=180px
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|habitat=
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|iucn-status=VU
|population=Unknown
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}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Northern black korhaan |binomial=Afrotis afraoides
|image=File:Northern black korhaan (Afrotis afraoides) male.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Southern Africa.
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|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=Unknown
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
| A. a. etoschae (Grote 1922)
| A. a. damarensis Roberts 1926
| A. a. afraoides (Smith 1831)
}}
}}
{{Species table/end}}
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Otididae}}
{{Otidimorphae|M.|state=collapsed}}
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Category:Birds of Southern Africa
Category:Taxa named by George Robert Gray
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