Przevalski's partridge

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Rusty-necklaced partridge

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Alectoris
Species:
A. magna
Binomial name
Alectoris magna
(
Przewalski
, 1876)

Przevalski's partridge (Alectoris magna) or the rusty-necklaced partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found only in China.

Taxonomy

Przevalski's partridge has two recognized subspecies:[2]

  • A. m. lanzhouensis (Liu N., Huang Z., & Wen L., 2004) - Lanzhou Basin, and central Gansu (China)
  • A. m. magna (Przevalski, 1876) - north to northeastern Qinghai (China)

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Russian explorer

Nikolai Przhevalsky.[3]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678703A92784709.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.13.1
    . Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 276.


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