Ring-neck Pheasant

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The Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus) is a species of gamebird native to Asia, it is the largest of the four extant species of common pheasant, which is any constituting the genus Phasianus, in addition to being the only of the thirty-two extant pheasant species that has been introduced to many parts of the world, there are eighteen recognized subspecies within five subspecies groups: the Phasianus torquatus sohokhotensis group that contains the Strauch's Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus strauchi), the Sohokhoto Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus sohokhotensis), and the Alashan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus alaschanicus), the Phasianus torquatus torquatus group that contains the Tonkinese Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus takatsukasae), the Shandong Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus shandongensis), the Sichuan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus torquatus), the Hainan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus hainanus), and the Formosan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus formosanus), the Phasianus torquatus karpowi group that contains the Shansi Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus kiangsuensis), the Mandarin Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus liaoningensis), the Manchurian Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus pallasi), and the Korean Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus karpowi), the Phasianus torquatus hagenbecki group that contains the Kobdo Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus hagenbecki) and the Ruo Shui Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus edzinensis), and the Phasianus torquatus mongolicus group that contains the Mongolian Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus mongolicus), the Zerafshan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus zerafschanicus), the Syr-Darya Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus turcestanicus), and the Aral Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus bergii).