Gallopheasant
Genus of birds
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The gallopheasants (genus Lophura) are pheasants of the family Phasianidae.[1] The genus comprises 11 species and several subspecies. Several species in this genus are known as firebacks, including crestless and crested firebacks, as well as the Siamese fireback.
| Gallopheasants | |
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| Lophura swinhoii - Swinhoe pheasant | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Tribe: | Phasianini |
| Genus: | Lophura Fleming, 1822 |
| Type species | |
| Phasianus ignitus Shaw, 1797 | |
Taxonomy
The genus Lophura was introduced in 1822 by the Scottish naturalist John Fleming to accommodate a single species, the Bornean crested fireback (Phasianus ignitus Shaw, 1798) which is therefore considered to be the type species by monotypy.[2][3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek λοφος/lophos meaning "crest" with ουρα/oura meaning "tail".[4]
Species
The genus contains the following 11 species:[5]
| Image | Name | Common name | Distribution |
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Lophura edwardsi | Edwards's pheasant | Vietnam |
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Lophura swinhoii | Swinhoe's pheasant | Taiwan |
 | Lophura bulweri | Bulwer's pheasant | Borneo |
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Lophura leucomelanos | kalij pheasant | Pakistan to western Thailand |
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Lophura nycthemera | silver pheasant | mainland Southeast Asia, and eastern and southern China |
.jpg) | Lophura erythrophthalma | Malayan crestless fireback | Malay peninsula and Sumatra |
_TMnr_10006557.jpg) | Lophura pyronota | Bornean crestless fireback | northern Borneo |
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Lophura rufa | Malayan crested fireback | Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra |
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Lophura ignita | Bornean crested fireback | Borneo |
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Lophura diardi | Siamese fireback | Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia |
 | Lophura inornata | Salvadori's pheasant | Sumatra |
The Vietnamese pheasant Lophura hatinhensis, formerly considered valid, has now been shown to be a variant of Edward's pheasant caused by inbreeding due to small population size.[6]
The Imperial pheasant (Lophura × imperialis) is now known to be a hybrid between Edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi) and a subspecies of silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera annamensis).[7]
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