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Pavo (bird)

Pavo Temporal range: Late Miocene to present
Indian peacock (Pavo cristatus) displaying its tail
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae
Tribe:	Pavonini
Genus:	Pavo Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Pavo cristatus (Indian peafowl) Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Pavo cristatus Pavo muticus

Pavo is a genus of two species in the pheasant family. The two species, along with the Congo peafowl, are known as peafowl.

The genus Pavo was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.^[1] The genus name is the Latin word for a peacock.^[2] The type species is the Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus).^[3]

The genus contains two species.^[4]

Genus Pavo – Linnaeus, 1758 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Indian peafowl Male Female	Pavo cristatus Linnaeus, 1758	South Asia; introduced elsewhere	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Green peafowl Male Female	Pavo muticus Linnaeus, 1766 Three subspecies P. m. muticus Linnaeus, 1766 P. m. spicifer Shaw, 1804 P. m. imperator Delacour, 1949	Southeast Asia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EN

• Pavo bravardi (Bravard's peafowl) (Early – Late Pliocene) – Gallus moldovicus, sometimes misspelt moldavicus, may be a junior synonym^[5]
• Gallus aesculapii, a Late Miocene – Early Pliocene "junglefowl" of Greece, may also have been a peafowl^[5]

In the Pliocene on the Balkan Peninsula, Bravard's peafowl coexisted with ptarmigans (Lagopus sp.)^[6] Peafowl were widespread on the Balkan Peninsula and in Southeastern Europe until the end of the Pliocene.^[7]

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