Colinus
Colinus is a genus of birds in the New World quail family, Odontophoridae. Members of the genus are commonly known as bobwhites.[2]
Bobwhite | |
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Colinus virginianus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Galliformes |
Family: | Odontophoridae |
Genus: | Colinus Goldfuss, 1820 |
Type species | |
Tetrao virginianus[1] (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Species | |
Colinus cristatus |
Species
Extant species
Image | Scientific name | Subspecies | Common name | Distribution |
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Colinus cristatus (Linnaeus, 1766) |
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crested bobwhite | northern South America, extending through Panama to just reach Costa Rica | |
Colinus leucopogon (Lesson, 1842) |
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spot-bellied bobwhite | El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica | |
Colinus nigrogularis (Gould, 1843) |
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Yucatan bobwhite, black-throated bobwhite | Central America where its range extends from the Yucatan Peninsula southwards to Honduras and Nicaragua | |
Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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northern bobwhite[2] | United States from the Great Lakes and southern Minnesota east to Pennsylvania and southern Massachusetts, and extending west to southern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado front-range foothills to 7000 feet, and all but westernmost Texas | |
Fossil species
- †Colinus eatoni
- †Colinus suilium Brodkorb 1959
- †Colinus hibbardi Wetmore 1944
References
- Peters, JL (1934). Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 46–51.
- "Colinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
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