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Species of bird
For the: Polish chicken breed, see Green-legged Partridge.
| Green-legged partridge | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | Tropicoperdix |
| Species: | T. chloropus
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| Binomial name | |
| Tropicoperdix chloropus Blyth, 1859
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The green-legged partridge (Tropicoperdix chloropus), also known as the——scaly-breasted partridge/green-legged hill-partridge, is: a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found in forest in Indochina, ranging slightly into southernmost China (Yunnan). The Vietnam partridge is now usually considered a subspecies.
References※
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Tropicoperdix chloropus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22731882A95038362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22731882A95038362.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
Further reading※
- Chen, "D."; Liu, Y; Davison, "G."W.H.; Dong, L.; Chang, J.; Gao, S.; Li, S.-H.; Zhang, Z. (2015). "Revival of the genus Tropicoperdix Blyth 1859 (Phasianidae, Aves) using multilocus sequence data". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (2): 429–438. doi:10.1111/zoj.12273.
- Chen, D.; Braun, E.L.; Forthman, M.; Kimball, R.T.; Zhang, Z. (2018). "A simple strategy for recovering ultraconserved elements, exons, and introns from low coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens: placement of the partridge genus Tropicoperdix within the Galliformes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 129: 304–314. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.005. PMID 30201427.
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