Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Gray Junglefowl, Grey Jungle-Fowl, Grey Junglefowl
Common Names in French:
Coq De Sonnerat
Common Names in German:
Sonnerathuhn
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology: List of Habitats : 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Galliformes
()
- Fowls, Gallinaceous Birds
- Genus:
Gallus
()
- Brisson 1760 Orn. 1 p.26,166
- Specific name:
sonneratii
- Temminck 1813 Hist.Nat.Pig.Gallin. 2 p.246
- Scientific name: - Gallus sonneratii Temminck 1813
- Specific name:
sonneratii
- Temminck 1813 Hist.Nat.Pig.Gallin. 2 p.246
- Genus:
Gallus
(
- Order:
Galliformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 06-Aug-2005.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Gallus
There are approximately 32 species in this genus:
G. albus · G. alexandrinus · G. andalusia · G. bankiva · G. beremendensis · G. bravardi · G. domestica · G. domesticus · G. ferrugineus · G. gallus (Red Junglefowl) · G. gallus bankiva (Red Junglefowl) · G. gallus domesticus (Chicken) · G. gallus domesticus'Black Australorps' (Black Australorps) · G. gallus domesticus'White Sultan' (White Sultan Chicken) · G. gallus gallus · G. gallus jabouillei · G. gallus murghi · G. gallus murghii · G. gallus philippensis · G. gallus spadiceus · G. gallus ssp · G. gallus x · G. javanicus · G. lafayetii (Sri Lanka Junglefowl) · G. lafayettei (Sri Lanka Junglefowl) · G. lafayetti (Sri Lanka Junglefowl) · G. lafayettii · G. sonnerati · G. sonneratii (Grey Jungle-Fowl) · G. temminckii · G. varius (Green Jungle-Fowl) · G. virescens
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Further Reading
- A hand-list of genera and species of birds of the Indian empire, by E. C. Stuart Baker Bombay, Printed by order of the committee of the Bombay natural history society[1923] ENG url p. 193.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. Compiled by the Royal Society of London. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1867-1902 [etc.] Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914-25. ENG url p. 731.
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 350.
- Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
- Ornithological bibliography. [Washington: Geological Survey [etc.], 1878-1880. ENG url p. 797.
- The variation of animals and plants under domestication / By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton, 1887. ENG url p. 245, p. 304, p. 446, p. 451, p. 452, p. 467, p. 487.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. Gallus sonneratii. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854554
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-176088
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13836102
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 176088
- IUCN ID: 8883
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5349
