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| name = Germain's peacock-pheasant |
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| image = Germain's Peacock-Pheasant (male) IMG 7861 copy.jpg |
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| image_caption = Male |
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| image_caption = At [[Diergaarde Blijdorp]] (Foundation Royal Zoo of Rotterdam), The Netherlands |
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| image2 = Germain's Peacock-Pheasant (female) 6785.jpg |
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| image_upright = 1.2 |
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| image2_caption = Female<br>Both photographed at [[Cát Tiên National Park]] |
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| status = VU |
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| status_system = IUCN3.1 |
| status_system = IUCN3.1 |
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| status_ref = <ref>{{ |
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Polyplectron germaini'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22679372A92812961 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22679372A92812961.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref> |
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| status2 = CITES_A2 |
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| status2_system = CITES |
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| status2_ref = <ref>{{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}</ref> |
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| genus = Polyplectron |
| genus = Polyplectron |
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| species = germaini |
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'''Germain's peacock-pheasant''' (''Polyplectron germaini'') is a pheasant |
The '''Germain's peacock-pheasant''' ('''''Polyplectron germaini''''') is a pheasant in the family [[Phasianidae]] endemic to [[Indochina]]. The name commemorates the [[France|French]] colonial army's veterinary surgeon [[Louis Rodolphe Germain]]. |
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==Description== |
==Description== |
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The bird is a medium-sized, approximately 60 |
The bird is a medium-sized, approximately {{convert|60|cm|in|0}} long, brownish dark [[pheasant]] with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown [[Iris (anatomy)|iris]] and purplish-blue [[ocelli]] on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers. Both sexes are similar. The female has eighteen tail feathers and is smaller than the male. |
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==Taxonomy== |
==Taxonomy== |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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* ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Polyplectron_germaini/ images and movies of the Germain's peacock-pheasant ''(Polyplectron germaini)''] |
* ARKive - [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505122554/http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Polyplectron_germaini/ images and movies of the Germain's peacock-pheasant ''(Polyplectron germaini)''] |
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* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=277&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet] |
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=277&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet] |
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* [http://www.rdb.or.id/detailbird.php?id=219 Red Data Book] |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061013182920/http://www.rdb.or.id/detailbird.php?id=219 Red Data Book] |
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{{Phasianidae}} |
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[[Category:Polyplectron|Germain's peacock-pheasant]] |
[[Category:Polyplectron|Germain's peacock-pheasant]] |
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[[Category:Birds of Vietnam]] |
[[Category:Birds of Vietnam]] |
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Latest revision as of 07:25, 2 October 2024
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| Female Both photographed at Cát Tiên National Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | Polyplectron |
| Species: | P. germaini
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| Polyplectron germaini Elliot, 1866
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The Germain's peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) is a pheasant in the family Phasianidae endemic to Indochina. The name commemorates the French colonial army's veterinary surgeon Louis Rodolphe Germain.
Description
[edit]The bird is a medium-sized, approximately 60 centimetres (24 in) long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish-blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers. Both sexes are similar. The female has eighteen tail feathers and is smaller than the male.
Taxonomy
[edit]The phylogeny of this species is somewhat enigmatic. mtDNA cytochrome b and D-loop as well as the nuclear ovomucoid intron G data confirms that it belongs to a clade together with the grey peacock-pheasant, but also the "brown" southernly species bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant and mountain peacock-pheasant. Biogeography suggests that it may indeed be the most ancient form in its clade, speciating parapatrically or peripatrically in Cochinchina (Kimball et al. 2001). This probably took place in the Late Pliocene, roughly 4-3 mya.[3]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]The Germain's peacock-pheasant is endemic to southern Indochina. It is found in the seasonal tropical forests of mid-southern Vietnam and far eastern Cambodia; it can be found readily in Cat Tien National Park. The female usually lays two creamy-white eggs.
Status and conservation
[edit]Due to ongoing habitat loss and limited range, the Germain's peacock-pheasant is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Polyplectron germaini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22679372A92812961. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22679372A92812961.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ Note that the molecular clock calibration method used by Kimball et al. (2001) is now known to be inappropriate, yielding far too low estimates in galliform birds.
- Kimball, Rebecca T.; Braun, Edward L.; Ligon, J. David; Lucchini, Vittorio & Randi, Ettore (2001): A molecular phylogeny of the peacock-pheasants (Galliformes: Polyplectron spp.) indicates loss and reduction of ornamental traits and display behaviours. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 73(2): 187–198. HTML abstract