Silver Pheasant

SCI Name:  Lophura nycthemera
Protonym:  Phasianus nycthemerus Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.159
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Phasianidae / Lophura
Taxonomy Code:  silphe
Type Locality:  China.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LOPHURA
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Crested Fireback Pheasant L. ignita) Gr. λοφος lophos  crest; ουρα oura  tail; "Cheeks naked.  4. LOPHURA.  Tail vertical, with the middle feather arched.  Phasianus ignitus." (Fleming 1822); "Lophura Fleming, Philos. Zool., 2, 1822, p. 230. Type, by monotypy, Phasianus ignitus [Shaw]." (Peters 1934, II, 117).
Synon. Acomus, Alectrophasis, Alectryon, Chalcocomus, Delacourigallus, Diardigallus, Euplocomus, Gallophasis, Gennaeus, Grammatoptilus, Hierophasis, Houppifer, Lobiophasis, Lochmophasis, Lophalector, Macartneya, Nycthemerus, Phasianalector, Spicifer.

nycthemera
Gr. νυξ nux, νυκτος nuktos  night; ἡμερα hēmera  day; "90. PHASIANUS.  ...  nycthemerus.  5. P. albus, crista abdomineque nigris.  Phasianus sinensis albus e nigro cæruleus. Alb. av. 3. p. 35. t. 37. Edw. av. 66. t. 66.  Habitat in China.  Tempora nuda rubra. Maris crista nigra. Femina grisea est." (Linnaeus 1758) (Lophura).

SUBSPECIES

Silver Pheasant (occidentalis)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera occidentalis
occidentale / occidentalis
L. occidentalis  western  < occidens, occidentis  west  < occidere  to set. This toponym was frequently given to taxa discovered in locations west of previously known populations.
● Cocal, Western Andes, Colombia (Dysithamnus).
● Jamaica; ex “Onocrotalus” or “Pelecanus fuscus” of Sloane 1725, “Pelican of America” of Edwards 1747, and “Pelecanus” of Browne 1756 (Pelecanus).
● TL. Day Dawn, Western Australia; "Westralian Wedgebill" (Mathews 1912) (Psophodes).

Silver Pheasant (rufipes)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera rufipes
rufipes
Mod. L. rufipes, rufipedis  red-footed  < L. rufus  red, rufous; pes, pedis  foot  < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.

Silver Pheasant (ripponi)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera ripponi
ripponi
Lt.-Col. George Rippon (1861-1927) British Army in India and Burma 1880-1914 (subsp. Abroscopus schisticeps, subsp. Actinodura egertoni, syn. Carpodacus verreauxii, subsp. Certhia himalayana, subsp. Fulvetta vinipectus, Liocichla, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Pericrocotus ethologus, subsp. Pomatorhinus schisticeps, syn. Prunella collaris nipalensis, subsp. Suthora nipalensis).

Silver Pheasant (jonesi)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera jonesi
jonesi
● Morris Paterson Jones (1847-1936) British lawyer, magistrate, Chairman of Liverpool Museums Sub-committee (subsp. Caprimulgus nubicus).
● Alexander Edward Jones (1878-1947) British businessman, naturalist, collector in India and the Himalayas (subsp. Gyps indicus, syn. Pellorneum ruficeps punctatum).
● Maj. Henry Jones (1838-1921) British Army, ornithologist, bird artist (syn. Lophura nycthemera).

Silver Pheasant (omeiensis)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera omeiensis
omeiensis
Omei Shan / Emei Shan, Sichuan, China.

Silver Pheasant (rongjiangensis)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera rongjiangensis
rongjiangensis
Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China.

Silver Pheasant (beaulieui)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera beaulieui
beaulieu / beaulieui
Louis Henri André David-Beaulieu (1896-1969) French colonial administrator in Indochina, ornithologist (subsp. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Mirafra javanica, subsp. Pomatorhinus ruficollis, subsp. Suthora nipalensis).

Silver Pheasant (nycthemera)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera nycthemera
nycthemera
Gr. νυξ nux, νυκτος nuktos  night; ἡμερα hēmera  day; "90. PHASIANUS.  ...  nycthemerus.  5. P. albus, crista abdomineque nigris.  Phasianus sinensis albus e nigro cæruleus. Alb. av. 3. p. 35. t. 37. Edw. av. 66. t. 66.  Habitat in China.  Tempora nuda rubra. Maris crista nigra. Femina grisea est." (Linnaeus 1758) (Lophura).

Silver Pheasant (whiteheadi)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera whiteheadi
whiteheadi
● John Whitehead (1860-1899) British explorer, collector in Borneo 1885-1888, the Philippines 1893-1896, and Hainan 1899 (Aerodramus, Calyptomena, syn. Dicaeum haematostictum, subsp. Dicrurus leucophaeus (ex Buchanga palawanensis Whitehead, 1890), Harpactes, syn. Leptocoma sperata henkei, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Nisaetus nipalensis, syn. Pachycephala grisola plateni, subsp. Prioniturus discurus, Sitta, syn. Strix seloputo wiepkeni, syn. Trichastoma bicolor, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus, Urocissa, Urosphena, subsp. Zosterops montanus, Zosterornis).
● Maj. Charles Hugh Tempest Whitehead (1880-1915) British Army in India, collector (syn. Zoothera mollissima).

Silver Pheasant (fokiensis)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera fokiensis
fohkienensis / fohkiensis / fokensis / fokienensis / fokiensis
Fokien Province, China.

Silver Pheasant (berliozi)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera berliozi
berliozi
Jacques Paul Antoine Berlioz (1891-1975) French ornithologist (syn. Alcippe cinereiceps fucata, Apus, subsp. Heterospingus xanthopygius, syn. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Mentocrex kioloides, syn. Muscicapa striata balearica, syn. Myiopagis gaimardii, syn. Pycnonotus flavescens vividus, Ramphastos vitellinus x hybrid).

Silver Pheasant (beli)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera beli
beli
Jean-Marc Bel (1855-1930) French civil and mining engineer, geologist, in Bolivia 1888, Thailand 1893, 1895, Laos and Annam 1897, and French Congo 1906-1907 (subsp. Lophura nycthemera).

Silver Pheasant (engelbachi)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera engelbachi
engelbachi
Dr Pierre-Henri Engelbach (1890-1961) French surgeon, ornithologist, collector in Indochina 1924-1946 (subsp. Heterophasia desgodinsi, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Macropygia ruficeps).

Silver Pheasant (lewisi)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera lewisi
lewis / lewisi / lewisii
● Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) US scholar, bibliophile, collector of Walpoleana, Trustee of Yale University (subsp. Actinodura egertoni).
● Lewis I., Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia (syn. Gavicalis virescens forresti).
● John Spedan Lewis (1885-1963) British business magnate, founder of the John Lewis Partnership 1929, aviculturalist (subsp. Lophura lineatus).
● Capt. Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) US Army, explorer, co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition which crossed America 1804-1806 to map and assess the potential of the Louisiana Purchase (Melanerpes).
● Dr T. H. Lewis (1854-1917) Royal Navy, surgeon, collector in the Pacific Ocean (subsp. Ptilinopus viridis).

Silver Pheasant (annamensis)
SCI Name: Lophura nycthemera annamensis
annamense / annamensis
Annam Protectorate, French Indochina (= central Vietnam).