Japanese quail (Cay Nhật Bản, Coturnix japonica)

The Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), also known as the coturnix quail, is a species of Old World quail found in East Asia.

Japanese quail (Cay Nhật bản, Coturnix japonica) was considered a subspecies of the common quail, it was distinguished as its own species in 1983. The Japanese quail is primarily a ground-living species that tends to stay within areas of dense vegetation in order to take cover and evade predators.

galliformes derives from "gallus", Latin for "rooster". 
Phasianidae from Phasianus: Latin for "pheasant", derived from the Ancient Greek φἀσιἀνος, phāsiānos, meaning "(bird) of the Phasis", the River Phasis (now the Rioni) in Colchis on the east coast of the Black Sea (now western Georgia).
Coturnix is the Latin for the common quail.