The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Montigallus

(Phasianidae; syn. Tetraogallus † Tibetan Snowcock T. tibetanus) L. mons, montis  mountain; gallus  cockerel; "Genus Tetraogallus J. E. Gray 1832.  ...  Subgenus White bellied Snowcock Montigallus subgen. nova Potapov 1991   Type species Tibetan Snowcock T. (Montigallus) tibetanus J. Gould, 1854" (Potapov 2015); "Montigallus Potapov, 2015, Russkiy Ornitologicheskiy Zhurnal, XXIV, p. 1367.  Type, by original designation, Tetraogallus tibetanus Gould, 1854.  Montigallus Potapov, 1991, was deemed invalid, being published without a type species being fixed." (JAJ 2021).


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