Przevalski's_partridge

Przevalski's partridge

Przevalski's partridge

Species of bird

Przevalski's partridge (Alectoris magna) or the rusty-necklaced partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found only in China.

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Taxonomy

Przevalski's partridge has two recognized subspecies:[2]

  • A. m. lanzhouensis (Liu N., Huang Z., & Wen L., 2004) - Lanzhou Basin, and central Gansu (China)
  • A. m. magna (Przevalski, 1876) - north to northeastern Qinghai (China)

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Russian explorer Nikolai Przhevalsky.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    BirdLife International (2016). "Alectoris magna". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22678703A92784709. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678703A92784709.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    "IOC World Bird List 13.1". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.13.1. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  3. [3]
    Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 276.


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