Green-legged partridge

For the Polish chicken breed, see Green-legged Partridge.

Green-legged partridge
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae
Genus:	Tropicoperdix
Species:	T. chloropus
Binomial name
Tropicoperdix chloropus Blyth, 1859

The green-legged partridge (Tropicoperdix chloropus), also known as the scaly-breasted partridge or green-legged hill-partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found in forest in Indochina, ranging slightly into southernmost China (Yunnan). The Vietnam partridge is now usually considered a subspecies.

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Tropicoperdix chloropus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22731882A95038362. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22731882A95038362.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.

Green-legged partridge

Further reading

• Chen, D.; Liu, Y; Davison, G.W.H.; Dong, L.; Chang, J.; Gao, S.; Li, S.-H.; Zhang, Z. (2015). "Revival of the genus Tropicoperdix Blyth 1859 (Phasianidae, Aves) using multilocus sequence data". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (2): 429–438. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12273 .
• Chen, D.; Braun, E.L.; Forthman, M.; Kimball, R.T.; Zhang, Z. (2018). "A simple strategy for recovering ultraconserved elements, exons, and introns from low coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens: placement of the partridge genus Tropicoperdix within the Galliformes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 129: 304–314. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.005 . PMID   30201427.