# Gallopheasant > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gallopheasant > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gallopheasant.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallopheasant > Source revision: 1282445620 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Genus of birds}} {{Redirect|Lophura|the genus of lizards that was called Lophura|Hydrosaurus{{!}}''Hydrosaurus''}} {{Automatic Taxobox | name = Gallopheasants | image = Male Swinhoe's Pheasant.jpg | image_caption = ''[Lophura swinhoii](/source/Lophura_swinhoii)'' - Swinhoe pheasant | taxon = Lophura | authority = [Fleming](/source/John_Fleming_(naturalist)), 1822 | type_species = ''[Phasianus ignitus](/source/Lophura_ignita)'' | type_species_authority = Shaw, 1797 }} The '''gallopheasants''' (genus '''''Lophura''''') are [pheasant](/source/pheasant)s of the family [Phasianidae](/source/Phasianidae).{{Cite web |title=Lophura Fleming, 1822 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2473973 |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}} The genus comprises 11 species and several subspecies. Several species in this genus are known as '''firebacks''', including [crestless](/source/Crestless_fireback) and [crested](/source/Crested_fireback) firebacks, as well as the [Siamese fireback](/source/Siamese_fireback). ==Taxonomy== The genus ''Lophura'' was introduced in 1822 by the Scottish naturalist [John Fleming](/source/John_Fleming_(naturalist)) to accommodate a single species, the [Bornean crested fireback](/source/Bornean_crested_fireback) (''Phasianus ignitus'' [Shaw](/source/George_Shaw_(biologist)), 1798) which is therefore considered to be the [type species](/source/type_species) by [monotypy](/source/monotypy).{{ cite book | last=Fleming | first=John | author-link=John Fleming (naturalist) | date=1822 | title=The philosophy of zoology, or, A general view of the structure, functions, and classification of animals | volume=2 | location=Edinburgh | publisher=Hurst, Robinson & Co | page=230 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28230388 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=117 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482930 }} The genus name combines the [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek) λοφος/''lophos'' meaning "crest" with ουρα/''oura'' meaning "tail".{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Lophura | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Lophura | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=15 February 2025 }} ==Species== The genus contains the following 11 species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Pheasants, partridges, francolins | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/pheasants/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=15 February 2025}} {| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" |- ! Image !! Name !! Common name!! Distribution |- |120px |''Lophura edwardsi'' |[Edwards's pheasant](/source/Edwards's_pheasant) |Vietnam |- |120px |''Lophura swinhoii'' |[Swinhoe's pheasant](/source/Swinhoe's_pheasant) |Taiwan |- |120px || ''Lophura bulweri''|| [Bulwer's pheasant](/source/Bulwer's_pheasant)|| Borneo |- |120px |''Lophura leucomelanos'' |[kalij pheasant](/source/kalij_pheasant) |Pakistan to western Thailand |- |120px |''Lophura nycthemera'' |[silver pheasant](/source/silver_pheasant) |mainland Southeast Asia, and eastern and southern China |- | 120px|| ''Lophura erythrophthalma'' || [Malayan crestless fireback](/source/Malayan_crestless_fireback)|| Malay peninsula and Sumatra |- |frameless|120x120px|| ''Lophura pyronota'' || [Bornean crestless fireback](/source/Bornean_crestless_fireback)|| northern Borneo |- |frameless|120x120px |''Lophura rufa'' |[Malayan crested fireback](/source/Malayan_crested_fireback) |Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra |- |120px |''Lophura ignita'' |[Bornean crested fireback](/source/Bornean_crested_fireback) |Borneo |- |120px |''Lophura diardi'' |[Siamese fireback](/source/Siamese_fireback) |Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia |- |120px || ''Lophura inornata'' || [Salvadori's pheasant](/source/Salvadori's_pheasant)|| Sumatra |- |} The [Vietnamese pheasant](/source/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.{{Cite journal |last1=Hennache |first1=A |last2=Mahood |first2=SP |last3=Eames |first3=JC |last4=Randi |first4=E |date=2012 |title=''Lophura hatinhensis'' is an invalid taxon |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289320430 |journal=Forktail |volume=28 |pages=129–135}} The [Imperial pheasant](/source/Imperial_pheasant) (''Lophura × imperialis'') is now known to be a [hybrid](/source/Hybrid_(biology)) between Edwards's pheasant (''Lophura edwardsi'') and a subspecies of silver pheasant (''Lophura nycthemera annamensis'').{{Cite journal |last1=Hennache |first1=A |last2=Rasmussen |first2=P |last3=Lucchini |first3=V |last4=Rimondi |first4=S |last5=Randi |first5=E |date=2003 |title=Hybrid origin of the imperial pheasant ''Lophura imperialis'' (Delacour and Jabouille, 1924) demonstrated by morphology, hybrid experiments, and DNA analyses |journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=80 |issue=4 |pages=573–600 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00251.x|doi-access=free }} == References == {{reflist}} {{Phasianidae}} {{Pangalliformes|Pha.|state=collapsed}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q773896}} * {{Galliformes-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Gallopheasant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallopheasant) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallopheasant?action=history)). 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