Gallopheasant

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Gallopheasants
Male Swinhoe's Pheasant.jpg
Lophura swinhoii - Swinhoe pheasant
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Tribe: Phasianini
Genus: Lophura
Fleming, 1822
Type species
Phasianus ignitus
Shaw, 1797

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.

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Taxonomy

The genus Lophura was introduced in 1822 by the Scottish naturalist John Fleming to accommodate a single species, the Bornean crested fireback (Phasianus ignitus Shaw, 1798) which is therefore considered to be the type species by monotypy. [2] [3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek λοφος/lophos meaning "crest" with ουρα/oura meaning "tail". [4]

Species

The genus contains the following 11 species: [5]

ImageNameCommon nameDistribution
Bazant Edwardsuv 2.jpg Lophura edwardsi Edwards's pheasant Vietnam
Swinhoe's Pheasant 0673.jpg Lophura swinhoii Swinhoe's pheasant Taiwan
Lophura bulweri2.JPG Lophura bulweri Bulwer's pheasant Borneo
Kalij pheasant Prasanna Mamidala.jpg Lophura leucomelanos kalij pheasant Pakistan to western Thailand
Silver Pheasant.jpg Lophura nycthemera silver pheasant mainland Southeast Asia, and eastern and southern China
Lophura erythrophthalma (12737744943).jpg Lophura erythrophthalma Malayan crestless fireback Malay peninsula and Sumatra
COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Mannetje van de kuifloze vuurrughoen (Houppifer erythrophtalmus pyronotus) TMnr 10006557.jpg Lophura pyronota Bornean crestless fireback northern Borneo
Lophura ignita.jpg Lophura rufa Malayan crested fireback Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
Feuerruckenfasan (Lophura ignita nobilis) 01.jpg Lophura ignita Bornean crested fireback Borneo
Siamese Fireback RWD.jpg Lophura diardi Siamese fireback Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia
Salvadoris Pheasant.jpg Lophura inornata Salvadori's pheasant Sumatra

Lophura hatinhensis and Lophura hoogerwerfi are sometimes considered subspecies, leaving this genus with only 11 species. [6] [7] Other subspecies are also sometimes considered distinct species.

References

  1. ↑ "Lophura Fleming, 1822". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  2. ↑ Fleming, John (1822). The philosophy of zoology, or, A general view of the structure, functions, and classification of animals. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Hurst, Robinson & Co. p. 230.
  3. ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1934). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 117.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. "Lophura". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  5. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Pheasants, partridges, francolins". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  6. ↑ Hennache, A; Mahood, SP; Eames, JC; Randi, E (2012). "Lophura hatinhensis is an invalid taxon". Forktail. 28: 129–135.
  7. ↑ "Lophura [inornata or hoogerwerfi] (Salvadori's or Sumatran Pheasant) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  8. ↑ 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 .


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