Colinus
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Bobwhite
| image = Virginiawachtel 2007-06-16 101.jpg
| image_caption = Colinus virginianus
| taxon = Colinus
| authority = Goldfuss, 1820
| type_species = Perdrix mexicanus=Tetrao virginianus Linnaeus, 1758
northern bobwhite
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = * Colinus cristatus
- Colinus leucopogon
- Colinus nigrogularis
- Colinus virginianus{{ITIS |id=175862 |taxon=Colinus |access-date=2010-09-28}}
}}
Colinus is a genus of birds in the New World quail family, Odontophoridae. Members of the genus are commonly known as bobwhites.
Taxonomy
The genus Colinus was introduced in 1820 by the German naturalist Georg August Goldfuss to accommodate a single species, Perdrix mexicanus, a junior synonym of Tetrao virginiatus Linnaeus, 1758, the northern bobwhite, which is the type species by monotypy.{{ cite book | last=Goldfuss | first=Georg August | author-link=Georg August Goldfuss | date=1820 | title=Handbuch der Zoologie | volume=2 | language=German | location=Nürnberg | publisher=J.L. Schrag | page=220 | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070879252&seq=244 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=46 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482859 }} The genus name come from the Nahuatl language Zölin meaning "quail".{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Colinus | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Colinus | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=18 February 2025 }}
Species
{{Species table |genus= Colinus |authority-name=Goldfuss |authority-year=1820 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Crested bobwhite|binomial=Colinus cristatus
|image=File:Colinus cristatus 2.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus|authority-year=1766 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=
|range-image=File:Colinus cristatus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=22 cm
|habitat=open scrubland
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Spot-bellied bobwhite |binomial=Colinus leucopogon
|image=File:Colinus leucopogon 3zz.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Lesson|authority-year=1842 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
|range-image=
|range-image-size=180px
|size=23 cm
|habitat=open scrubland
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Yucatan bobwhite, black-throated bobwhite|binomial=Colinus nigrogularis
|image=File:Colinus nigrogularis 1 (cropped).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gould|authority-year=1843 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=
|range-image=File:Colinus nigrogularis map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=22 cm
|habitat= henequen and sisal landscape
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Northern bobwhite |binomial=Colinus virginianus
|image=File:Virginiawachtel 2007-06-16 065.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus|authority-year= 1758|authority-not-original=yes
|range=
|range-image=File:Colinus virginianus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=25 cm
|habitat=prairies, farmland, woodlands
|hunting=
|iucn-status= NT
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/end}}
=Fossil species=
- †Colinus eatoni
- †Colinus suilium Brodkorb 1959
- †Colinus hibbardi Wetmore 1944
References
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Category:Birds of Central America
Category:Taxa named by Georg August Goldfuss
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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