Pavonini is a tribe in the subfamily Phasianinae. Living members of this family are primarily found in tropical Asia, along with one species in the Congo Rainforest in Africa and fossil remains also known from Europe[1] and East Asia.[2][3] The tribe contains two of the most charismatic members of the Phasianidae, the peafowl and the arguses. This grouping was supported by a 2021 phylogenetic analysis of Galliformes, and accepted by the International Ornithological Congress. The tribe name is accepted by the Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World.[4][5][6][7]
| Pavonini Temporal range: Middle Miocene to Present | |
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| Green peafowl (Pavo muticus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Subfamily: | Phasianinae |
| Tribe: | Pavonini Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Species
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Afropavo |
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Argusianus |
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Pavo |
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Rheinardia |
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Evolution
editThe earliest named record of the tribe is Eopavo hezhengensis from the Late Miocene of Linxia Basin, Gansu, Northwestern China. It lived in a high-elevation savanna habitat, unlike the humid forests preferred by its extant relatives. Eopavo, along with older unnamed peafowl fossils from the Himalayan area (13.6 Ma), indicates that the peafowl dispersal likely occurred from Asia (the Tibetan Plateau) to other continents between the Late Miocene and the Pliocene.[2]
References
edit- ↑ Boev, Zlatozar; Koufos, George (2000-06-30). "Presence of Pavo bravardi (Gervais, 1849) (Aves, Phasianidae) in the Ruscinian locality of Megalo Emvolon, Macedonia, Greece". Geologica Balcanica. 30 (1–2): 69–74. doi:10.52321/geolbalc.30.1-2.69. ISSN 0324-0894.
- 1 2 Yu, T.; Li, Z.; Stidham, T.; Zhou, Z. (2026). "A small Miocene peafowl (Galliformes, Phasianidae) from the high-elevation Linxia Basin of China illuminates the evolution of the clade and its paleobiology". Journal of Paleontology: 1–13. doi:10.1017/jpa.2026.10229.
- ↑ Lan, Yong-Jie; Mayr, Gerald; Tsai, Cheng-Hsiu (2026-05-20). "A new Pleistocene peafowl from Taiwan reveals the extinction of a large galliform bird in East Asia". Royal Society Open Science. 13 (5). doi:10.1098/rsos.260347. ISSN 2054-5703.
- ↑ Kimball, Rebecca T.; Hosner, Peter A.; Braun, Edward L. (2021-05-01). "A phylogenomic supermatrix of Galliformes (Landfowl) reveals biased branch lengths". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 158 107091. Bibcode:2021MolPE.15807091K. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107091. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 33545275. S2CID 231963063.
- ↑ "Taxonomic Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ↑ "Galliformes". bird-phylogeny (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ↑ "H&M4 Checklist family by family - The Trust for Avian Systematics". www.aviansystematics.org. Retrieved 2022-08-04.