The Mount Cameroon spurfowl was described in 1909 by the British Army Officer
Boyd Alexander from a specimen collected on
Mount Cameroon. He coined the
binomial name Francolinus camerunensis. The species is now placed in the
genus Pternistis that was introduced by the German naturalist
Johann Georg Wagler in 1832. The species is considered to be
monotypic: no
subspecies are recognised. ==References==