Perdicinae

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title: Perdicinae
text: Perdicinae is a polyphyletic former subfamily of birds in the pheasant family, Phasianidae, regrouping the partridges, Old World quails, and francolins. Although this subfamily was considered monophyletic and separated from the pheasants, tragopans, junglefowls, and peafowls (Phasianinae) till the early 1990s, molecular phylogenies have shown that these two subfamilies actually constitute only one lineage. For example, some partridges are more closely affiliated to pheasants, whereas Old World q
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Subfamily of birds
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdicinae
date created:
date modified: 2023-12-03T11:34:09Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Perdix_perdix_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg","width":650,"height":421}
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