Colinus
Colinus is a genus of birds in the New World quail family, Odontophoridae. Members of the genus are commonly known as bobwhites.[1]
Bobwhite | |
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Colinus virginianus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Galliformes |
Family: | Odontophoridae |
Genus: | Colinus Goldfuss, 1820 |
Species | |
Colinus cristatus |
Species
Extant species
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Colinus cristatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | crested bobwhite | northern South America, extending through Panama to just reach Costa Rica | |
Colinus leucopogon (Lesson, 1842) | spot-bellied bobwhite | El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica | |
Colinus nigrogularis (Gould, 1843) | Yucatan bobwhite, black-throated bobwhite | Central America where its range extends from the Yucatan Peninsula southwards to Honduras and Nicaragua | |
Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758) | northern bobwhite[1] | 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
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References
- "Colinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
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