Verreaux's monal-partridge | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Galliformes |
Family: | Phasianidae |
Genus: | Tetraophasis |
Species: | T. obscurus
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Binomial name | |
Tetraophasis obscurus (
Verreaux, 1869)
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Verreaux's monal-partridge (Tetraophasis obscurus), also known as chestnut-throated partridge or chestnut-throated monal-partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found only in central China. Its natural habitat is boreal forest.
The common name commemorate the French naturalist Jules Verreaux. [2]