''Synoicus'' is a genus of 4 species of
Old World quail
Old World quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the tribe Coturnicini of the pheasant family Phasianidae. Although all species commonly referred to as "Old World quail" are in the same tribe, they are paraphyletic ...
.
The species in the genus are distributed throughout
sub-Saharan Africa
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, tropical Asia, and
Australasia
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. Two of the four species in the genus were originally classified in ''Excalfactoria'', one was classified in ''
Anurophasis
The Snow Mountain quail (''Synoicus monorthonyx''), is a roughly 28-cm-long (11 in), dark brown quail of alpine grasslands. It was formerly considered the only member of the genus ''Anurophasis'', but phylogenetic analysis places it as the ...
'', and one was classified in ''
Coturnix
''Coturnix'' is a genus of five extant species and five to eight known extinct species of Old World quail.
Range
These species are distributed throughout Africa, Eurasia, Australia, and formerly New Zealand. An extinct Adaptive radiation, radiat ...
''. Several phylogenetic studies found these species to all group together into a single genus, which was followed by the
International Ornithological Congress
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in 2021.
Species
References
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Bird genera