Synoicus

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Synoicus
Brown Quail - Atherton - Queensland.jpg
S. ypsilophorus
Asian Blue Quail RWD.jpg
S. chinensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Tribe: Coturnicini
Genus: Synoicus
Gould, 1843
Type species
Tetrao ypsilophorus
Bosc, 1792
Species

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Synonyms

Anurophasis van Oort, 1910
Excalfactoria Bonaparte, 1856

Synoicus is a genus of 4 species of Old World quail. [1]

The species in the genus are distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa, tropical Asia, and Australasia. Two of the four species in the genus were originally classified in Excalfactoria, one was classified in Anurophasis , and one was classified in Coturnix . Several phylogenetic studies found these species to all group together into a single genus, which was followed by the International Ornithological Congress in 2021. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Species

Genus Synoicus Gould, 1843 – four species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Brown quail

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Synoicus ypsilophorus
(Bosc, 1792)

Nine subspecies
  • S. y. raaltenii(Müller, S, 1842)
  • S. y. pallidior Hartert, EJO, 1897
  • S. y. saturatiorHartert, EJO, 1897
  • S. y. dogwa Mayr & Rand, 1935
  • S. y. plumbeus Salvadori, 1895
  • S. y. monticolaMayr & Rand, 1935
  • S. y. mafuluMayr & Rand, 1935
  • S. y. australis(Latham, 1801)
  • S. y. ypsilophorus(Bosc, 1792)
Mainland Australia, Tasmania and Papua New Guinea; introduced to New Zealand and Fiji Size:

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Snow Mountain quail

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Synoicus monorthonyx
(van Oort, 1910)
Snow and Star Mountains, West Papua (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea
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King quail

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Synoicus chinensis
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Six subspecies
  • S. c. chinensis(Linnaeus, 1766)
  • S. c. trinkutensis Richmond, 1902
  • S. c. lineatus(Scopoli, 1786)
  • S. c. lepidus( Hartlaub, 1879)
  • S. c. victoriae (Mathews , 1912)
  • S. c. colletti (Mathews, 1912)
India and Sri Lanka east to Taiwan, south to eastern Australia Size:

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Blue quail

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Synoicus adansonii
(Verreaux & Verreaux, 1851)
Sub-Saharan Africa, from Zambia north to Ethiopia, and west to Sierra Leone Size:

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References

  1. 1 2 "Taxonomic Updates – IOC World Bird List" . Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  2. Seabrook-Davison, Mark; Huynen, Leon; Lambert, David M.; Brunton, Dianne H. (2009-07-28). "Ancient DNA Resolves Identity and Phylogeny of New Zealand's Extinct and Living Quail (Coturnix sp.)". PLOS ONE. 4 (7): e6400. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.6400S. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006400 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   2712072 . PMID   19636374.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  3. Hosner, Peter A.; Tobias, Joseph A.; Braun, Edward L.; Kimball, Rebecca T. (2017-05-17). "How do seemingly non-vagile clades accomplish trans-marine dispersal? Trait and dispersal evolution in the landfowl (Aves: Galliformes)". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1854): 20170210. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0210. PMC   5443944 . PMID   28469029.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  4. Kimball, Rebecca T.; Mary, Colette M. St; Braun, Edward L. (2011-05-02). "A Macroevolutionary Perspective on Multiple Sexual Traits in the Phasianidae (Galliformes)". International Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2011: 423938. doi: 10.4061/2011/423938 . PMC   3119463 . PMID   21716735.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)