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Coturnix chinensis (King Quail; Blue-breasted Quail)

Synonyms: Excalfactoria chinensis; Synoicus chinensis (homotypic); Synoicus chinensis chinensis; Tetrao chinensis (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The king quail (Excalfactoria chinensis), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, button quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi, is a species of Old World quail in the family Phasianidae. This species is the smallest "true quail" and is quite common in aviculture worldwide. In the wild they range from southeastern Asia to Oceania with 10 different subspecies. A failed attempt was made to introduce this species to New Zealand by the Otago Acclimatisation Society in the late 1890s.
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Infraspecies

Coturnix chinensis chinensis (Indian blue quail)
Coturnix chinensis colletti (Indian blue quail)
Coturnix chinensis lepida (Indian blue quail)
Coturnix chinensis lineata (Indian blue quail)
Coturnix chinensis novaeguineae
Coturnix chinensis palmeri (Indian blue quail)
Coturnix chinensis papuensis (Indian blue quail)
Coturnix chinensis trinkutensis (Indian blue quail)
Coturnix chinensis victoriae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.28693
EDGE Score: 2.22861
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  39 grams
Birth Weight [1]  4.8 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  5
Incubation [3]  17 days
Mating Display [1]  Ground display
Mating System [1]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  5 years

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0