Pavo (bird)
Genus of birds
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The genus Pavo was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. The genus name is the Latin word for a peacock. The type species is the Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus).
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Species
The genus Pavo contains two extant species, both native to Asia:
Fossil record
- †Pavo bravardi (Gervais, 1849) (Bravard's peafowl) (Early–Late Pliocene) – Gallus moldovicus, sometimes misspelt moldavicus, may be a junior synonym
- †Pavo miejue Lan et al., 2026 (extinct peafowl) (Middle Pleistocene) – the first extinct bird from Taiwan
- †Gallus aesculapii Jánossy, 1976 (Late Miocene–Early Pliocene) – "junglefowl" of Greece, may also have been a peafowl
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