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Germain's peacock pheasant

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Galliformes

Subfamily
  
Argusianinae

Scientific name
  
Polyplectron germaini

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Phasianidae

Genus
  
Polyplectron

Higher classification
  
Peacock-pheasant

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Similar
  
Peacock‑pheasant, Bird, Mountain peacock‑pheasant, Malayan peacock‑pheasant, Bronze‑tailed peacock‑pheasant

Germain's peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) is a pheasant that is endemic to Indochina. The name commemorates the French colonial army's veterinary surgeon Louis Rodolphe Germain.

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Description

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The bird is a medium-sized, approximately 60 cm long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish-blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers. Both sexes are similar. The female has eighteen tail feathers and is smaller than male.

Taxonomy

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The phylogeny of this species is somewhat enigmatic. mtDNA cytochrome b and D-loop as well as the nuclear ovomucoid intron G data confirms that it belongs to a clade together with the grey peacock-pheasant, but also the "brown" southernly species bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant and mountain peacock-pheasant. Biogeography suggests that it may indeed be the most ancient form in its clade, speciating parapatrically or peripatrically in Cochinchina (Kimball et al. 2001). This probably took place in the Late Pliocene, roughly 4-3 mya.

Distribution and habitat

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The Germain's peacock-pheasant is endemic to southern Indochina. It is found in the seasonal tropical forests of mid-southern Vietnam and far eastern Cambodia; it can be found readily in Cat Tien National Park. The female usually lays two creamy-white eggs.

Status and conservation

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Due to ongoing habitat loss and limited range, the Germain's peacock-pheasant is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.

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References

Germain's peacock-pheasant Wikipedia