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Genus of birds
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]
Egg, Collection
Museum Wiesbaden
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]
[4] The genus name combines the Latin word gallus for a "farmyard cock" with perdix meaning "partridge".
[5]
The genus Galloperdix is
sister to the genus
Polyplectron
[6] and together they form a clade that is sister to
Haematortyx .
[7]
[8]
The genus contains three species:
[1]
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.
^
Dickinson, E.C. ;
Remsen, J.V. Jr. , eds. (2013).
The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World . Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 49.
ISBN
978-0-9568611-0-8 .
^ Jobling, James A. (2010).
The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 170.
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^ Simmons, Mark P.; Gatesy, John (2021).
"Collapsing dubiously resolved gene-tree branches in phylogenomic coalescent analyses" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 158 : 107092.
doi :
10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107092 .
PMID
33545272 .
^ 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 .
PMC
4123699 .
PMID
25030982 .
^ 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 .
PMID
33545275 .
S2CID
231963063 .
Genera of
landfowl and their extinct allies