The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Pyctes
(Phasianidae; syn. Alectoris † Chukar Partridge A. chukar) Gr. πυκτης puktēs fighter; "Pyctes (Chacura) chukor, [drawing no.] 110" (Hodgson 1844); "Pyctes Hodgson, 1844, Cat. Nipalese Birds, Zool. Miscellany, III, p. 85. New name for Chacura Hodgson, 1837, based on a vernacular name, thereby considered unsuitable by some authors." (JAJ 2021).
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