Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Eyton, TC 1845)

Reference:
   Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1), 16 p.230

Protonym:
  Perdix Charltonii

Type locality:
  Malacca.

Link:
  https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2287362

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  65FE782AAA39B964

Avibase ID:
  avibase-65FE782A

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/65FE782A

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 553876

Geographic range:

• Tropicoperdix [chloropus or merlini]: widespread across Indochina, across most of Thailand, except the Peninsula, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, as well as in northern, central, and southern Myanmar, and locally into southwest China, in Yunnan
• Tropicoperdix chloropus chloropus: far southwestern China (Yunnan) to Myanmar and western Thailand
• Tropicoperdix chloropus peninsularis: southwestern Thailand
• Tropicoperdix chloropus olivacea: Laos and Cambodia
• Tropicoperdix chloropus cognacqi: southern Vietnam
• Tropicoperdix chloropus tonkinensis: northern Vietnam
• Tropicoperdix merlini merlini: interior of central Vietnam
• Tropicoperdix merlini vivida: coastal hills of central Vietnam
• Tropicoperdix charltonii: disjunctly in the northern Malay Peninsula, northern Sumatra, and southern Sumatra, from where there is just one old record; on the Malay Peninsula, it occurs southward to northern Pahang, and north to southernmost Thailand (where the species is now very rare); on Sumatra, known only from the far north, around Aceh, Lampung, and Telukbetung
• Tropicoperdix charltonii charltonii: southern Thailand to southern Myanmar and Malay Peninsula
• Tropicoperdix charltonii atjenensis: northern Sumatra (Aceh Province)
• Tropicoperdix graydoni: northern Borneo (Sabah)
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