LOCAL NAMES

• Local Name in Sinhala : ශ්‍රි ලංකා වළි කුකුළා, Walikukula
• Bulgarian Цейлонска кокошка
• Czech kur srílanský
• Dutch Ceylonhoen
• English Sri Lanka Junglefowl
• English (United States) Sri Lanka Junglefowl
• French Coq de Lafayette
• French (French Guiana) Coq de Lafayette
• German Ceylonhuhn
• Icelandic Seylonhænsn
• Japanese セイロンヤケイ
• Norwegian flammehane
• Polish kur cejloński
• Russian Цейлонский петух
• Serbian Cejlonska divlja kokoš
• Slovak kura džungľová
• Spanish Gallo de Ceilán
• Spanish (Spain) Gallo de Ceilán
• Swedish ceylondjungelhöna
• Turkish Çizgili Yaban Tavuğu
• Ukrainian Курка цейлонська

DESCRIPTION

The Sri Lankan junglefowl (Gallus lafayettii sometimes spelled Gallus lafayetii), also known as the Ceylon junglefowl or Lafayette’s junglefowl, is a member of the Galliformes bird order which is endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is the national bird. It is closely related to the red junglefowl (G. gallus), the wild junglefowl from which the chicken was domesticated. However, a whole-genome molecular study rather show that Sri Lankan junglefowl and grey junglefowl are genetically sister species than with the red junglefowl. Sri Lankan junglefowl and red junglefowl diverged about 2.8 million years ago, whereas time of divergence between the Sri Lankan junglefowl and grey junglefowl was 1.8 million years ago.