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Meleagris Linnaeus 1758
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Royal Ontario Museum. Erika Tavares. Year: 2010. cc-by-3.0
Meleagris is a genus of
birds
in the family
Phasianidae
.
EOL has data for
3 attributes
, including:
egg mass
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/EggMass
Definition:
The amount of matter in the egg stage of an organism, after laying or spawning.
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3.23 oz
habitat includes
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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forest
URI:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000174
Definition:
A forest biome is a terrestrial biome which includes, across its entire spatial extent, densely packed vegetation which strongly limits light penetration to the forest floor.
Comment:
Preliminary definition.
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number of public records in bold
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
Definition:
number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
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13
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Meleagris Linnaeus 1758.
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Royal Ontario Museum. Erika Tavares. Year: 2010. cc-by-3.0
Meleagris includes
9 children
:
Meleagris anza (Howard 1963)
Meleagris celer Marsh 1872
Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus 1758 (Common turkey)
Meleagris leopoldi Miller & Bowman 1956
Meleagris ocellata Cuvier 1820 (Ocellated Turkey)
Meleagris progenes (Brodkorb 1964)
Meleagris richmondi Shufeldt 1915
Meleagris superbus Cope 1870
Meleagris tridens Wetmore 1931
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