Galloperdix
| Galloperdix | |
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| Red spurfowl | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Subfamily: | Phasianinae |
| Genus: | Galloperdix Blyth, 1845 |
| Type species | |
| Tetrao spadiceus (red spurfowl) Gmelin, JF, 1789
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Galloperdix is a genus of three species of bird in the pheasant family, Phasianidae. These terrestrial birds are restricted to the Indian Subcontinent, with the red spurfowl and painted spurfowl in forest and scrub in India, and the Sri Lanka spurfowl in forests of Sri Lanka. They share the common name "spurfowl" with the members of the genus Pternistis which are widely distributed in Africa.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus Galloperdix was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth to accommodate a single species, the red spurfowl, which is therefore the type species.[2][3] The genus name combines the Latin word gallus for a "farmyard cock" with perdix meaning "partridge".[4]
The genus Galloperdix is sister to the genus Polyplectron and together they form a clade that is sister to Haematortyx.[5][6]
The genus contains three species:[1]
- Red spurfowl Galloperdix spadicea
- Painted spurfowl Galloperdix lunulata
- Sri Lanka spurfowl Galloperdix bicalcarata
References
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Pheasants, partridges, francolins". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ Blyth, Edward (1845). "On the Leiotrichane Birds of the Subhemalayas by B.H. Hodgson, Esq.: with some additions and annotations, — a Synopsis of the Indian Pari, — and of the Indian Fringillidae, By E. Blyth". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 13, Part 2 (156): 933-944 [936 note]. Although the title page is dated 1844, the article was not published until 1845.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1934). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 106.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Sun, K; Meiklejohn, K. A; Faircloth, B. C; Glenn, T. C; Braun, E. L; Kimball, R. T (2014). "The evolution of peafowl and other taxa with ocelli (eyespots): A phylogenomic approach" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281 (1790): 20140823. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0823.
- ^ Kimball, R.T.; Hosner, P.A.; Braun, E.L. (2021). "A phylogenomic supermatrix of Galliformes (Landfowl) reveals biased branch lengths". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 158: 107091. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107091.
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