Green-legged partridge
Species of bird
Green-legged partridge | |
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Conservation status | |
![]() Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Galliformes |
Family: | Phasianidae |
Genus: | Tropicoperdix |
Species: | T. chloropus |
Binomial name | |
Tropicoperdix chloropus Blyth, 1859 |
The green-legged partridge (Tropicoperdix chloropus), also known as the scaly-breasted partridge or green-legged hill-partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found in forest in Indochina, ranging slightly into southernmost China (Yunnan). The Vietnam partridge is now usually considered a subspecies.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Tropicoperdix chloropus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22731882A95038362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22731882A95038362.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
Further reading
- Chen, D.; Liu, Y; Davison, G.W.H.; Dong, L.; Chang, J.; Gao, S.; Li, S.-H.; Zhang, Z. (2015). "Revival of the genus Tropicoperdix Blyth 1859 (Phasianidae, Aves) using multilocus sequence data". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (2): 429–438. doi:10.1111/zoj.12273.
- Chen, D.; Braun, E.L.; Forthman, M.; Kimball, R.T.; Zhang, Z. (2018). "A simple strategy for recovering ultraconserved elements, exons, and introns from low coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens: placement of the partridge genus Tropicoperdix within the Galliformes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 129: 304–314. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.005. PMID 30201427.
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