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The genus Coturnix was introduced in 1764 by the French naturalist François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault.The type species is the common quail (Coturnix coturnix). [2] [3] The genus name is the Latin for the common quail. [4]
The rain quail is now one of six species placed in the genus Coturnix that was introduced in 1764 by the French naturalist François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault. [5] [6] [7] The genus name is the Latin for the common quail. The specific epithet coromandelica is from the type location, the Coromandel Coast of southeast India. [8]
The specific epithet coturnix is the Latin word for the common quail. [3] This species is now placed in the genus Coturnix that was introduced in 1764 by the French naturalist François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault. [4] [5] [6] The common quail was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). [7]
Vent sexing in Wenchang, Hainan, China (2014) Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male. Some females also have bumps ...
For certain breeds, sex is identifiable by their feathers. Another method is vent sexing, a discreet term for checking the chicks’ reproductive organs. Depending on gender, chicks are fed ...
Old World quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the tribe Coturnicini of the pheasant family Phasianidae. Although all species commonly referred to as "Old World quail" are in the same tribe, they are paraphyletic with respect to the other members of the tribe, such as Alectoris , Tetraogallus , Ammoperdix ...
The genus name is an abbreviation of the genus Coturnix. [3] The type species was subsequently designated as the common buttonquail. [4] The buttonquail family, Turnicidae, was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray. [5] [6] The buttonquails were traditionally placed in Gruiformes or Galliformes (the crane and pheasant ...
Coturnism is an illness featuring muscle tenderness and rhabdomyolysis [1] (muscle cell breakdown) after consuming quail (usually common quail, Coturnix coturnix, [2] from which the name derives) that have fed on poisonous plants.