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title: "Galo-cingalês"
description: "Gallus lafayettii — Aves. The Sri Lankan junglefowl (Gallus lafayettii), also known as the Ceylon junglefowl or Lafayette's junglefowl, is a member of the Galliformes bird order."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/sri-lanka-junglefowl
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Galo-cingalês

> Gallus lafayettii — Aves. The Sri Lankan junglefowl (Gallus lafayettii), also known as the Ceylon junglefowl or Lafayette's junglefowl, is a member of the Galliformes bird order.

- Scientific name: *Gallus lafayettii*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `jungle` (Selva)
- iNaturalist observations: 1217
- Wikidata: [Q21346306](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21346306)
- iNaturalist taxon: [367470](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/367470)

## Names

- en: Sri Lanka Junglefowl
- de: Ceylonhuhn
- es: Gallo de Ceylán
- fr: Coq de Lafayette
- pt: Galo-cingalês
- pl: Kur cejloński

## Countries with the most observations

LK (1044)

## Summary

The Sri Lankan junglefowl (Gallus lafayettii), also known as the Ceylon junglefowl or Lafayette's junglefowl, is a member of the Galliformes bird order. It is a common endemic bird in 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, it is even more closely related to the gray 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.
Evidence of introgressive…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_junglefowl

## Photo

![Galo-cingalês](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sri-lanka-junglefowl/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tero Linjama · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/261100849

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sri-lanka-junglefowl?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).