Californian Turkey

Californian Turkey

Taxobox
name = California Turkey
status = EX
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Galliformes
familia = Meleagrididae
genus = "Meleagris"
species = "M. californica"
binomial = "Meleagris californica"
binomial_authority =

The Californian Turkey ("Meleagris californica") was a species of Meleagrididae from North America, especially California. It went extinct about 10,000 years ago. [California Department of Fish and Game. [http://www.dfg.ca.gov/publications/docs/turkeyguide.pdf Wild Turkey Guide 2005] .]

References

* Physical Geography of North America by Antony Orme


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