Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.161

Protonym:
  Tetrao virginianus

Type locality:
  'America' = Virginia.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/180/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  A502548D13FECC62

Avibase ID:
  avibase-A502548D

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/A502548D

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 175863

Geographic range:

• Colinus virginianus: eastern USA to western Guatemala
• Colinus virginianus virginianus: Atlantic coast of USA (Virginia to northern Florida and southeastern Alabama)
• Colinus virginianus marilandicus: northeastern USA (southeastern Maine to Pennsylvania and central Virginia)
• Colinus virginianus mexicanus: eastern USA west of Atlantic seaboard to Great Plains
• Colinus virginianus cubanensis: Cuba including Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Pines; south of western Cuba)
• Colinus virginianus texanus: southwestern Texas (southern USA) to northern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas)
• Colinus virginianus [floridanus or insulanus]: peninsular Florida (southeastern USA)
• Colinus virginianus taylori: South Dakota to northern Texas, western Missouri, and northwestern Arkansas (central USA)
• Colinus virginianus maculatus: eastern Mexico (central Tamaulipas to northern Veracruz and southeastern San Luis Potosí)
• Colinus virginianus aridus: eastern Mexico (central and west-central Tamaulipas to southeastern San Luis Potosí)
• Colinus virginianus graysoni: west-central Mexico (southern Nayarit to Morelos, southern Hidalgo, and San Luis Potosí)
• Colinus virginianus nigripectus: eastern Mexico (Puebla, Morelos, and México)
• Colinus virginianus pectoralis: southeastern Mexico (east slopes of mountains of central Veracruz)
• Colinus virginianus godmani: lowlands of southeastern Mexico (Veracruz)
• Colinus virginianus minor: southeastern Mexico (northeastern Chiapas and adjacent Tabasco)
• Colinus virginianus thayeri: southern Mexico (northeastern Oaxaca)
• Colinus virginianus coyoleos: Pacific coast of southern Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas)
• Colinus virginianus ridgwayi: northwestern Mexico (north-central Sonora); extirpated in Arizona (USA)
• Colinus virginianus atriceps: southern Mexico (interior of western Oaxaca)
• Colinus virginianus harrisoni: southern Mexico (southwestern Oaxaca)
• Colinus virginianus salvini: southern Mexico (coastal southern Chiapas)
• Colinus virginianus [insignis or nelsoni]: southern Mexico (southern Chiapas) and adjacent Guatemala
• Colinus nigrogularis: dry scrub and fields of lowlands of Yucatán Peninsula (eastern Mexico) including Petén (northern Guatemala) and to southern Belize; disjunctly eastern Honduras and northeastern Nicaragua
• Colinus nigrogularis nigrogularis: Belize and adjacent northern Guatemala
• Colinus nigrogularis persiccus: southeastern Mexico (Progreso area of Yucatán Peninsula)
• Colinus nigrogularis caboti: Yucatán Peninsula (northern Campeche, Yucatán, and northern Quintana Roo, southeastern Mexico)
• Colinus nigrogularis segoviensis: eastern Honduras and northeastern Nicaragua
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