copper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii)

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Subject:	copper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii)
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Artist Creator:Jean Gabriel Pretre
Description
Phasianus soemmeringii
Date 1700-1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Temminck pl. col. 487
Old Latin name Phasianus soemmeringii
New Latin name Syrmaticus soemmerringii
Common name Nederlands: Koperfazant
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phasianus_soemmeringii_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16900248.tif

The copper pheasant or Soemmerring's pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii) is endemic to Japan. The scientific name commemorates the German scientist Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring. The copper pheasant is distributed in and endemic to the hill and mountain forests of Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku islands of Japan.

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