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The Vietnamese pheasant, or Vietnam fireback, was formerly considered a species of gallopheasant, Lophura hatinhensis, but is now considered a variant of Edward's pheasant. Discovered in 1964, it is endemic to central Vietnam. Its range concentrates around Kẻ Gỗ Nature Reserve in Hà Tĩnh Province. [1]
Argusianus Rafinesque 1815 (argus pheasants) Afropavo Chapin, 1936 (African peafowl) Pavo Linnaeus, 1758 (Asiatic peafowl) Syrmaticus Wagler, 1832 (long-tailed pheasants) Phasianus Linnaeus, 1758 (true pheasants) Chrysolophus Gray, 1834 (ruffed pheasants) Lophura Fleming, 1822 non Gray, 1827 non Walker, 1856 (gallopheasants) Catreus Cabanis, 1851
The phylogeny of this species is somewhat enigmatic. mtDNA cytochrome b and D-loop as well as the nuclear ovomucoid intron G data confirms that it belongs to a clade together with the grey peacock-pheasant, but also the "brown" southernly species bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant and mountain peacock-pheasant.
The name combines the Ancient Greek polus meaning "many" with plēktron meaning "cock's spur". [3] The type species is the grey peacock-pheasant. [4] The systematics of the genus are somewhat unclear. Molecular research has revealed that peacock-pheasants are not genetically related to pheasants and only distantly to peafowl.
The genus Syrmaticus contains the five species of long-tailed pheasants. The males have short spurs and usually red facial wattles , but otherwise differ wildly in appearance. The hens (females) and chicks of all the species have a rather conservative and plesiomorphic drab brown color pattern.
He used the English name "The Peacock Pheasant from China". Edwards based his hand-coloured etching on a live bird which was given to Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford. [4] When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the tenth edition, he placed the grey peacock-pheasant with the Indian peafowl in the ...
The common quail (Coturnix coturnix), or European quail, is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.It is mainly migratory, breeding in the western Palearctic and wintering in Africa and southern India.
The Mikado pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado) is a species of gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. Sometimes considered an unofficial national bird of Taiwan (along with the Swinhoe's pheasant and Taiwan blue magpie ), a pair of Mikado pheasants and Yushan National Park , one of the areas it is ...