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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 genus Pavo. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Pavo bicalcaratum and cited Edwards' work. [ 5 ]
1781 painting by Maruyama Okyo Adult female head and upper neck Male profile. The green peafowl is a large bird in terms of overall size. The male is 1.8–3 m (5 ft 11 in – 9 ft 10 in) in total length, including its train, which measures 1.4–1.6 m (4 ft 7 in – 5 ft 3 in); the adult female is around half the total length of the breeding male at 1–1.1 m (3 ft 3 in – 3 ft 7 in) in length.
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; Crossoptilon Hodgson, 1838 (eared pheasants)
Afropavo (African peafowl) Pavo (Asiatic peafowl) incertae sedis: Polyplectron (peacock-pheasants) incertae sedis: Haematortyx (crimson-headed partridge) incertae sedis: Tropicoperdix; incertae sedis: Galloperdix (Asian spurfowl) Gallini: Bambusicola (bamboo partridges) Gallus (junglefowl, including the domestic chicken) Peliperdix (Latham's ...
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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. Their closest allies are the Asiatic spurfowl and the crimson-headed partridge, endemic to Borneo. These three genera share the curious tendency for multiple metatarsal ...
Galliformes / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often reared by humans for their meat and eggs, or hunted as game birds.
Pavonini is a tribe of bird in the subfamily Phasianinae.Members of this family are primarily found in tropical Asia, along with one species in the Congo Rainforest in Africa.