Tetraophasis
Tetraophasis | |
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Tetraophasis obscurus
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Galliformes |
Family: | Phasianidae |
Tribe: | Lophophorini |
Genus: | Tetraophasis Elliot, 1871 |
Type species | |
Perdix obscurus |
Tetraophasis is a genus of Galliformes in the family Phasianidae, which includes chickens, pheasants, partridges, grouse, turkeys, quail, and peafowl. It contains the following species:[1]
- Verreaux's monal-partridge (Tetraophasis obscurus)
- Szechenyi's monal-partridge (Tetraophasis szechenyii)
The name Tetraophasis is a combination of the genus name Tetrao (the name
owls and yellow-throated martens. Like monals, monal-partridges are strictly monogamous. The female incubates the eggs until the last 48 hours when the male may take over night time nest brooding. This is a habit documented in blood pheasants
, tragopans and monals.
Both sexes rear the chicks, which are not fully mature until their second year. Unlike monals the sexes do not separate during winter.
Monal-partridges are strong fliers. They evidently compete with koklass
as the two are rarely to be heard or seen in the same valleys.
References
- ^ "ITIS Report: Tetraophasis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.