Gallopheasant
Appearance
Gallopheasants | |
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Lophura swinhoii - Swinhoe pheasant | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Galliformes |
Family: | Phasianidae |
Tribe: | Phasianini |
Genus: | Lophura Fleming, 1822 |
Type species | |
Phasianus ignitus Shaw, 1797
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The gallopheasants (genus Lophura) are pheasants of the family Phasianidae.[1] The genus comprises 11 species and several subspecies. Several species in this genus are known as firebacks, including crestless and crested firebacks, as well as the Siamese fireback.
Taxonomy
[edit]Image | Name | Common name | Distribution |
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Lophura edwardsi | Edwards's pheasant | Vietnam | |
Lophura swinhoii | Swinhoe's pheasant | Taiwan | |
Lophura bulweri | Bulwer's pheasant | Borneo | |
Lophura leucomelanos | kalij pheasant | Pakistan to western Thailand | |
Lophura nycthemera | silver pheasant | mainland Southeast Asia, and eastern and southern China | |
Lophura erythrophthalma | Malayan crestless fireback | Malay peninsula and Sumatra | |
Lophura pyronota | Bornean crestless fireback | northern Borneo | |
Lophura rufa | Malayan crested fireback | Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra | |
Lophura ignita | Bornean crested fireback | Borneo | |
Lophura diardi | Siamese fireback | Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia | |
Lophura inornata | Salvadori's pheasant | Sumatra |
Lophura hatinhensis and Lophura hoogerwerfi are sometimes considered subspecies, leaving this genus with only 11 species.[2][3] Other subspecies are also sometimes considered distinct species.
- Lophura × imperialis - imperial pheasant[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lophura Fleming, 1822". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ Hennache, A; Mahood, SP; Eames, JC; Randi, E (2012). "Lophura hatinhensis is an invalid taxon". Forktail. 28: 129–135.
- ^ "Lophura [inornata or hoogerwerfi] (Salvadori's or Sumatran Pheasant) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ Hennache, A; Rasmussen, P; Lucchini, V; Rimondi, S; Randi, E (2003). "Hybrid origin of the imperial pheasant Lophura imperialis (Delacour and Jabouille, 1924) demonstrated by morphology, hybrid experiments, and DNA analyses". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 80 (4): 573–600. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00251.x.