Everything about Phasianus totally explained
The
genus Phasianus in the
Pheasant family consists of at least one species, the
Common Pheasant,
P. colchicus, which has thirty recognised subspecies, twenty-nine on the
Asian mainland and one on the island of
Taiwan off the southern coast of
China.
Both
Phasianus and
pheasant comes from the Greek word
phāsiānos, meaning "(bird) of the
Phasis" .
Phasis is the ancient name of the main
river of western
Georgia, currently called
Rioni.
Some
subspecies have been introduced to
North America and
hybridized, and have now become well established there.
The three forms on the
Japanese islands are considered by some experts to be variants of a distinct species, the
Green Pheasant,
P. versicolor, but others consider the Japanese birds to be part of the Common Pheasant complex, making thirty-three subspecies in total.
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