Avian pallium
In the anatomy of animals, an avian pallium is the dorsal telencephalon of a bird's brain. The subpallium is the ventral telencephalon.
The pallium of avian species tends to be relatively large, comprising ~75% of the telencephalic volume. Birds have a unique pallial structure known as the hyperpallium, once called the hyperstriatum.
A 2002 conference at Duke University established a standard nomenclature for describing the avian pallium as follows:
- Pallium
- *pyriform cortex
- *olfactory bulb
- *hippocampus
- *corticoid area
- *hyperpallium
- **apicale
- **intercalatum
- **densocellulare
- *mesopallium
- **dorsale
- **ventrale
- *nidopallium
- **field L2
- **entopallium
- **basorostralis
- *arcopallium
- *amygdaloid complex
- **posterior amygdala
- **nucleus taeniae
- Subpallium
- *striatum
- **lateral
- **medial
- *pallidum
- **globus pallidus or dorsal pallidum
- **ventral pallidum