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Imperial Pheasant is now know to be a hybrid between:
- Silver Pheasant - Lophura nycthemera and
- Edwards's Pheasant - Lophura edwardsi
One bird might also have been a hybrid between Silver Pheasant and Vietnamese Pheasant.
References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- A. Hennache, P. Rasmussen, V. Lucchini, S. Rimondi, E. Randi. 'Hybrid origin of the imperial pheasant Lophura imperialis (Delacour and Jabouille, 1924) demonstrated by morphology, hybrid experiments, and DNA analyses'. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 80, Number 4, December 2003, pp. 573-600.
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Imperial Pheasant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 October 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Imperial_Pheasant
