Talk:Galliformes
From Academic Kids
ITIS has this order quite mixed up. There's a suborder Galli, but Gallus isn't in it; there's a family Meleagrididae, but Meleagris isn't in it; and there's no Gallidae even though Gallus is the type species (Gallus and Meleagris are both in Phasianidae). Can someone sort this out? -phma
I added the chicken to this page. According to the article about the chicken, it is the most common bird in the world, so it certainly deserves a mention. I assumed that the taxonomy on the chicken article is correct ( Phasianidae Gallus gallus ), but I don't know for sure because I'm not a bird expert. Please correct it if you have more accurate information about the classification of the chicken. Thanks! --64.81.243.120 20:34, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Maybe it sounds trivial to talk about domesticated species that everyone knows about, but I find it necessary. After all, ring (mathematics) begins by explaining that ring structures behave somehow like... the integers. I would think it wrong if the whole article discussed rings without giving a single widely-known example. David.Monniaux 10:01, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
