On Temminck's tailless Ceylon Junglefowl, and how Darwin denied their existence
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2017-12-11Submitted date
2019-05-09Subject Terms
Gallus ecaudatusSri Lanka
Museum specimens
Domestic fowls
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Ceylon Junglefowl was described in 1807 by the Dutch ornithologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The specimens he examined were tailless (‘rumpless’) and therefore he named them Gallus ecaudatus. In 1831 the French naturalist René Primevère Lesson described a Ceylon Junglefowl with a tail as Gallus lafayetii (= lafayettii), apparently unaware of Temminck's ecaudatus. Subsequently, ecaudatus and lafayettii were realised to be the same species, of which G.stanleyi and G.lineatus are junior synonyms. However, Charles Darwin tried to disprove the existence of wild tailless junglefowl on Ceylon in favour of his theory on the origin of the domestic chicken.Citation
Hein van Grouw, Wim Dekkers, Kees Rookmaaker "On Temminck's tailless Ceylon Junglefowl, and how Darwin denied their existence," Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 137(4), 261-271, (11 December 2017)Publisher
British Ornithologists' ClubType
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© 2017 The Authors. This is an open access article, available to all readers online. The attached file is the published version of the article.NHM Repository
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0007-1595EISSN
2513-9894ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.25226/bboc.v137i4.2017.a3
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