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    Coturnix is a genus of five extant species and five to eight known extinct species of Old World quail. These species are distributed throughout Africa...
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    The common quail (Coturnix coturnix), or European quail, is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is mainly migratory...
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    The Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), also known as the coturnix quail, is a species of Old World quail found in East Asia. First considered a subspecies...
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    Rhynchortyx cinctus Genus Coturnix Common quail (also called Pharaoh, Bible, European or Nile quail), Coturnix coturnix Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica Stubble...
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    Coelioxys coturnix is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. "Coelioxys coturnix Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25...
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    List of Threatened Species. Although previously classified in the genus Coturnix, phylogenetic analyses have found it to form a monophyletic grouping with...
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    species has had a complex taxonomic history, being classified into the genus Coturnix, then Synoicus, then Excalfactoria. Phylogenetic evidence supports it belonging...
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    the species Jadera coturnix: Jadera coturnix coturnix (Burmeister, 1835) Jadera coturnix rufoculis (Kirby, 1890) "Jadera coturnix Report". Integrated...
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  • cages and are fed game bird feed. The most common domesticated type is the Coturnix quail (also known as the Japanese quail). Quails live on the ground, and...
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    Genus Coturnix Rain quail, Coturnix coromandelica Harlequin quail, Coturnix delegorguei Common quail, Coturnix coturnix †Canary Islands quail, Coturnix gomerae...
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    (muscle cell breakdown) after consuming quail (usually common quail, Coturnix coturnix, from which the name derives) that have fed on poisonous plants. From...
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  • Coturnix augustus is an extinct species of Coturnix that lived in Mongolia during the Pliocene epoch. Zelenkov, N. V. (2024). "The Diversity and Evolution...
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    rail species, Rallus adolfocaesaris and R. lowei, and two quail species, Coturnix lignorum and C. alabrevis, and the Madeiran wood pigeon, a subspecies of...
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    photoreceptors mediating photoperiodic induction in the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). From 1988 to 1995 Foster was a member of the National Science...
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    The stubble quail (Coturnix pectoralis) is a native Australian species which is the most common quail species in Australia. The species is not under any...
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    Phasianidae found in sub-Saharan Africa. The blue quail was described as Coturnix adansonii by Jules Verreaux and Édouard Verreaux in 1851. It is named after...
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  • order Galliformes. Quail may also refer to: Common quail, the bird Coturnix coturnix Buttonquail, a bird in the family Turnicidae Quail, Texas, U.S., a...
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    The harlequin quail (Coturnix delegorguei) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and in the Arabian Peninsula...
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    (certain quails) Margaroperdix Reichenbach, 1853 (Madagascar partridge) Coturnix Garsault, 1764 (typical Old World quails) Alectoris Kaup, 1829 (rock partridges)...
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    The rain quail or black-breasted quail (Coturnix coromandelica) is a species of quail found in the Indian Sub-continent and South-east Asia; its range...
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    schlegelii Coturnix Rain quail, Coturnix coromandelica Harlequin quail, Coturnix delegorguei Common quail, Coturnix coturnix Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica...
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    The Canary Islands quail (Coturnix gomerae) is an extinct quail species that once occurred on the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands, Spain). This quail...
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    species of quail are considered kosher. The Orthodox Union certifies Coturnix coturnix as kosher based upon the masorah of Rabbi Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft....
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    The New Zealand quail (Coturnix novaezelandiae), or koreke in Māori, is an extinct quail species endemic to New Zealand. The male and female were similar...
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    continental Europe (Coturnix and Alectoris), as well as the only members of Phasianidae as a whole native to Australasia (Coturnix and Synoicus). This...
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    individuals. There is solid white feathered variety of Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica) with dark eyes. Solid white feather is due to an autosomal recessive...
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    from Pleistocene and Holocene age bones include the Canary Islands quail (Coturnix gomerae), dune shearwater (Puffinus holeae), lava shearwater (P. olsoni)...
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    naturalist in Pierre Bonnaterre. The genus name is an abbreviation of the genus Coturnix. The type species was subsequently designated as the common buttonquail...
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  •  Argentina A species of Chloephaga. Coturnix augustus Sp. nov Valid Zelenkov Pliocene  Mongolia A species of Coturnix. Enkuria Gen. et sp. et comb. nov...
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    rodents, and eggs. These birds vary in size from the diminutive king quail (Coturnix chinensis) (5 in) long and weighing 28–40 g (1–1.4 oz) to the largest extant...
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