The Ahanta francolin was described in 1854 by the Dutch zoologist
Coenraad Jacob Temminck from specimens collected in the
Dutch Gold Coast, now southern
Ghana, and given the
binomial name Francolinus ahantensis. Ahanta was the name of a region and a
people in what is now the
Western Region of the
Republic of Ghana. The species is now placed in the
genus Pternistis that was introduced by the German naturalist
Johann Georg Wagler in 1832. The Ahanta spurfowl is treated as
monotypic: the proposed
subspecies hopkinsoni is not recognised. ==References==