Francolinus
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
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| image = Francolinus pictus hm.jpg
| image_caption = Painted francolin
| taxon = Francolinus
| authority = Stephens, 1819
| type_species = Francolinus vulgaris{{cite book|title=Check-list of birds of the world|volume=2|author=Peters, JL|year=1934| publisher=Harvard University Press|place=Cambridge, Massachusetts|url=https://archive.org/stream/checklistofbirds21934pete#page/68/mode/1up|pages=68–84}}
| type_species_authority = Stephens, 1819 = Tetrao francolinus Linnaeus, 1766
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
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Francolinus is a genus of birds in the francolin group of the tribe Gallini in the pheasant family.
Species
Its three species range from western Asia and central Asia through to southern Asia and south-eastern Asia. The species are:{{cite web |url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/DOI-3/master_ioc_list_v3.5.xls |title= IOC World Bird List (v 3.5) |format=XLS |access-date= 2013-12-29 |editor=Gill, F |editor2=D Donsker |website=World Bird Names |year= 2013|doi= 10.14344/IOC.ML.3.5|doi-access= free }}
{{Species table |genus= Francolinus |authority-name=Stephens|authority-year= 1819 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Black francolin |binomial=Francolinus francolinus
|image=File:Black Francolin (27764995243).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|image2 =File:Black Francoline Female.jpg|image2-caption=Female
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1766 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= south-eastern Turkey through Iran, Turkmenistan, northeast India, and Kazipara, Panchagarh of Bangladesh
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies |bullets=on
| F. f. francolinus (Linnaeus, 1766)
| F. f. arabistanicus (Zarudny and Harms, 1913)
| F. f. asiae (Bonaparte, 1856)
| F. f. henrici (Bonaparte, 1856)
| F. f. bogdanovi (Zarudny, 1906)
| F. f. melanonotus (Hume, 1888)
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{{Species table/row
|name=Painted francolin |binomial=Francolinus pictus
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|authority-name=Jardine & Selby |authority-year=1828 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= central and southern India and southeastern Sri Lanka
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|name= Chinese francolin|binomial=Francolinus pintadeanus
|image=File:Francolinus pintadeanus phayrei imported from iNaturalist photo 107583030 on 5 March 2024.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Scopoli|authority-year= 1786 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Introduced to Mauritius, the Philippines, Madagascar, United States, Chile and Argentina.
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References
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Further reading
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- {{ cite journal | last1=Mandiwana-Neudani | first1=T.G. | last2=Little | first2=R.M. | last3=Crowe | first3=T.M. | last4=Bowie | first4=R.C.K. | year=2019 | title=Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of 'true' francolins: Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Gallini; Francolinus, Ortygornis, Afrocolinus gen. nov., Peliperdix and Scleroptila spp. | journal=Ostrich | volume=90 | issue=3 | pages=191–221 | doi=10.2989/00306525.2019.1632954 | bibcode=2019Ostri..90..191M | s2cid=208597134 }}
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