Gallus varius

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Gallus varius (Shaw, 1798)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Shaw, G. Account, accompanied by a figure , of a minute |Ichneumon|. JOURBOOK: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London VOLUME: 4 PAGES: 189, 1798.

Last scrutiny: 08-Jun-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Gallus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:

G. alexandrinus (Threadfin Horse Mackerel) · G. gallus (Bantam) · 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. lafayetii (Sri Lanka Junglefowl) · G. lafayettei (Sri Lanka Junglefowl) · G. lafayetti (Sri Lanka Junglefowl) · G. sonneratii (Sonnerat's Junglefowl) · G. varius (Green Jungle-Fowl)

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Further Reading

• A dictionary of birds, London, A. and C. Black, 1893-1896. url p. 290.
• A dictionary of birds, by Alfred Newton, assisted by Hans Gadow, with contributions from Richard Lydekker. .. Charles S. Roy. .. and Robert W. Shufeldt. .. London, A. and C. Black, 1893-1896. url p. 290.
• A hand-book to the game-birds / by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant. London: E. Lloyd, 1896-1897. url p. 47, p. 59.
• A hand-book to the game-birds. By W.R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, Edward Lloyd, Ltd., 1896-1897. url p. 47, p. 48, p. 59.
• A monograph of the pheasants / 2 1918 London, England: Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby & Co., 1918-1922. url p. , p. 170, p. 171, p. 227, p. 249, p. 268, p. v, p. x, p. XLVI.
• A student's text-book of zoology / by Adam Sedgwick. London: S. Sonnenschein and co.; 1898-1909. url p. 465.
• A student's text-book of zoology, by Adam Sedgwick. .. London, Macmillan Co., 1898-1909. url p. 465.
• An account of the collections of birds made by Mr. William Doherty in the Eastern Archipelago. London, 1896 url p. 554, p. 565, p. 574.
• Behavior monographs. Cambridge, Mass.: H. Holt & Co., 1911-1922. url p. 2.
• Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma: with a memoir, and a portrait of the author. Hertford: Printed by S. Austin & Sons, 1875. url .
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 343, p. 352.
• Catalogue of the birds in the Museum Asiatic Society / by Edward Blyth. Published by order of the society. Calcutta: J. Thomas, 1849. url p. 339.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 119.
• Farmer's cyclopedia of live stock / by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Ph.D., and Clarence Beaman Smith. New York: Orange Judd company, 1912. url p. 15.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url , p. 154, p. 171, p. 3, p. 307.
• Indian sporting birds / by Frank Finn. London: Francis Edwards, 1915. url p. 172.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 24 2004 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 54.
• List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. London: Printed for the Society, 1896. url p. 492, p. 492.
• Monitore zoologico italiano. [Siena]: Instituto anatomico della R. Universit di Siena, [1890-1988] url p. 319, p. 320, p. 322.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 184, p. 187.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 1099, p. 122, p. 306, p. 306, p. 679, p. 691.
• Records of the Indian Museum. Calcutta: Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, . 1907-1962. url p. 273.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. .. [Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution], 1848-1932. url p. 104, p. 87, p. 94.
• Revised list of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological society of London. 1872. London, Printed for the Society, [1872] url p. 288.
• Revue mthodique et critique des collections dposes dans cet tablissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 328, p. 335.
• Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies. Calcutta: s.n., 1872-1899. url p. 110, p. 68.
• The Cambridge natural history / edited by S. F. Harmer and A. E. Shipley. London: Macmillan and Co.; 1895-1909. url p. 605.
• The Cambridge natural history, London, Macmillan and Co., Limited;1895-1909 url .
• The Cambridge natural history, ed. by S.F. Harmer. .. and A.E. Shipley. .. London, Macmillan and co., limited;1895-1909 url p. 605.
• The Journal of experimental zoology. [New York, etc.]Wiley-Liss [etc.] url p. 733.
• The Riverside natural history. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company[c1888] url p. 215.
• The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands / A.B. Meyer and L.W. Wiglesworth. Berlin: R. Friedlnder, 1898. url p. 669.
• The book of poultry. With seventy plates in color and many text illustrations. 1921 New York, The Macmillan Company, 1921. url p. 6.
• The complete poultry book. Springfield, Ohio, Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick[c1882] url p. 9.
• The game birds of India and Asia, Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, 1911. url .
• The poultry book, by Harrison Weir, F.R.H.S. American ed., edited by Willis Grant Johnson assisted by George O. Brown, as associate editor and many American experts. Complete in eighteen parts. . New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903-1904. url p. 1246, p. 1265.
• The relative value of the processes causing evolution, The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1921. url , , p. 234, p. 235.
• The standard natural history. Ed. by John Sterling Kingsley. Boston, S.E. Cassino and company, 1884-85. url p. 215.
• The variation of animals and plants under domestication, by Charles Darwin. London, J. Murray, 1893. url p. 14, p. 452.
• Zoological Society bulletin. [New York]: New York Zoological Society. url p. 764.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Gallus varius. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Gallus varius. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• 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 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-176089
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14247994
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 176089
• IUCN ID: 210493
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 127896

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