Misplaced Pages

Argusianus: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 06:35, 1 October 2010 editWoohookitty (talk | contribs)Administrators611,228 editsm WikiCleaner 0.99 - Repairing link to disambiguation page - (You can help)← Previous edit Revision as of 22:50, 1 February 2011 edit undo81.40.180.59 (talk)No edit summaryNext edit →
Line 26: Line 26:


] ]
]
] ]
] ]

Revision as of 22:50, 1 February 2011

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Argusianus" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Argusianus
Great Argus at San Diego Zoo, USA
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Argusianus
Rafinesque, 1815

The genus Argusianus (Rafinesque, 1815) consist of two species of spectacularly plumaged pheasant with greatly elongated secondaries and central tail feathers.

The Double-banded Argus was described from a portion of a single primary feather found in a batch of Great Argus millinery feathers. It is probably just an aberrant specimen.

Species

Categories: