copper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii)

Query: Iconographia zoologica

Result: 761^st of 1524

Subject:	copper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii)
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Artist Creator:Jean Gabriel Pretre
Description
Phasianus soemmeringii
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Temminck pl. col. 488
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phasianus_soemmeringii_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16900246.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.

Iconographia zoologica
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