Synoicus
S. ypsilophorus
S. chinensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae
Tribe:	Coturnicini
Genus:	Synoicus Gould , 1843
Type species
Perdix australis [1] ( Latham )
Species
See text
Synonyms
Anurophasis van Oort , 1910 Excalfactoria Bonaparte , 1856

Synoicus is a genus of 4 species of Old World quail . ^[2]

The species in the genus are distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa , tropical Asia, and Australasia . Two of the four species in the genus were originally classified in Excalfactoria , one was classified in Anurophasis , and one was classified in Coturnix . Several phylogenetic studies found these species to all group together into a single genus, which was followed by the International Ornithological Congress in 2021. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Species [ edit ]

Species
Common and binomial names	Image	Range
Brown quail ( Synoicus ypsilophorus )		Mainland Australia , Tasmania and Papua New Guinea ; introduced to New Zealand and Fiji
Snow Mountain quail ( Synoicus monorthonyx )		Snow and Star Mountains , West Papua ( Indonesia ) and Papua New Guinea
King quail ( Synoicus chinensis )		India and Sri Lanka east to Taiwan , south to eastern Australia
Blue quail ( Synoicus adansonii )		Sub-Saharan Africa , from Zambia north to Ethiopia , and west to Sierra Leone

References [ edit ]