Gallopheasant

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Gallopheasants
Lophura swinhoii - Swinhoe pheasant
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae
Tribe:	Phasianini
Genus:	Lophura Fleming, 1822
Type species
Lophura ignita
Synonyms
Gallophasianus

The gallopheasants (genus Lophura) are pheasants of the family Phasianidae. The genus comprises 9 species and several subspecies.

Taxonomy[]

Image	Name	Common name	Distribution
	Lophura bulweri	Bulwer's pheasant	Borneo
	Lophura diardi	Siamese fireback	Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia
	Lophura edwardsi	Edward's pheasant	Vietnam
	Lophura erythropthalma	crestless fireback	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
	Lophura ignita	crested fireback	Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra.
	Lophura inornata	Salvadori's pheasant	Sumatra
	Lophura leucomelanos	kalij pheasant	Pakistan to western Thailand.
	Lophura nycthemera	silver pheasant	mainland Southeast Asia, and eastern and southern China
	Lophura swinhoii	Swinhoe's pheasant	Taiwan.

Lophura hatinhensis and Lophura hoogerwerfi are sometimes considered subspecies, leaving this genus with only 9 species. Other subspecies are also sometimes considered distinct species.

• Lophura × imperialis - imperial pheasant

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