Pavo (bird)
Pavo Temporal range: Late Miocene to present
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Indian peacock (Pavo cristatus) displaying its tail
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Galliformes |
Family: | Phasianidae |
Tribe: | Pavonini |
Genus: | Pavo Linnaeus, 1758 |
Type species | |
Pavo cristatus (Indian peafowl) Linnaeus, 1758
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Pavo is a genus of two species in the pheasant family. The two species, along with the Congo peafowl, are known as peafowl.
Taxonomy
The genus Pavo was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[1] The genus name is the Latin word for a peacock.[2] The type species is the Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus).[3]
Species
The genus contains two species.[4]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Indian peafowl | Pavo cristatus Linnaeus, 1758 |
South Asia; introduced elsewhere |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Green peafowl | Pavo muticus Linnaeus, 1766 |
Southeast Asia |
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Fossil record
- Pavo bravardi (Bravard's peafowl) (Early – Late junior synonym[5]
- Gallus aesculapii, a Late Miocene – Early Pliocene "junglefowl" of Greece, may also have been a peafowl[5]
In the
ptarmigans (Lagopus sp.)[6] Peafowl were widespread on the Balkan Peninsula and in Southeastern Europe until the end of the Pliocene.[7]
References
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- ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 156.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1934). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 133.
- Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Pheasants, partridges, francolins". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ The Palaeontological Association.
- ^ Boev, Z. 2002. Fossil record and disappearance of peafowl (Pavo Linnaeus) from the Balkan Peninsula and Europe (Aves: Phasianidae). – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 14: 109-115.