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The black-breasted buttonquail was originally described by ornithologist John Gould in 1837 as Hemipodius melanogaster,[3] from specimens collected around Moreton Bay in Queensland.[2] Its specific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek terms melas "black" and gaster "belly".[4] In 1840 English zoologist George Robert Gray established that the genus name Turnix, coined in 1790 by French naturalist Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, had priority over Hemipodius, which had been published in 1815 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck.[5] In his 1865 Handbook to the Birds of Australia, Gould used its current name Turnix melanogaster.[6] Gregory Mathews placed it in its own genus Colcloughia in 1913,[7] which was not followed by later authors.[2] He also described a subspecies Colcloughia melanogaster goweri from Gowrie on the basis of less extensive black plumage,[8] though this was later regarded as individual variation.[9] Along with other buttonquails, the black-breasted buttonquail was traditionally placed in the order Gruiformes, but more recent molecular analysis shows it belongs to an early offshoot within the shorebirds (Charadriiformes).[10] "Black-breasted buttonquail" has been designated the official name by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU).[11] "Black-fronted buttonquail" is an alternative vernacular nam