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Meleagris gallopavo
Meleagris ocellata Reference: 176135 (http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=176135) as of 2002-08-17 | ||||||||||||
The species are the North American Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, and the Central American Ocellated Turkey, Agriocharis ocellata.
Although the domesticated turkey has been deemed foolish and easily confused, the North American Wild Turkey is a game animal of considerable cunning. With its wingspan of 5 ft (1.8 m), this turkey is also by far the largest bird in the open forests in which it lives, and is rarely mistaken for any other.
It has been speculated that the Central American species is more tractable and was the source of the present domesticated stock.
When Europeans first encountered turkeys in the Americas, they incorrectly identified it with the African Helmeted Guineafowl[?] (Numida meleagris), also known as the turkey-cock from its importation to Europe through Turkey, and the name stuck. It remains also in the scientific name: meleagris is Greek for guinea-fowl.
This group is related to other members of the gamebird family as follows.
Order: Galliformes
- Megapodidae megapodes
- Cracidae chachalacas, guans and curassows[?]
- Tetraonidae grouse
- Phasianidae partridges, pheasants, quails etc.
- Odontophoridae New World quails
- Numididae guineafowl
- Meleagrididae turkeys
- Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo
- Ocellated Turkey, Agriocharis ocellata.
- Mesitornithidae mesites[?]
- Turnicidae buttonquails
The buttonquails are sometimes given order status as the Turniciformes.
The "Australian turkey" Choriotis australis is more accurately a bustard.
Larger Large White turkey female
Larger Large White turkey male
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