The Key to Scientific Names
- praeurogallus
L. prae before; specific name Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758 (syn. Tetrao urogallus).
- pseudourogallus
Gr. ψευδος pseudos false; specific name Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758; "2. Tetrao pseudourogallus, Brm. (Tetr. maculatus, Brm.)" (C. Brehm 1855) (syn. Tetrao urogallus x hybrid).
- urogallus
Partial homophonic rendering of German Auerhahn or Auerhenne mountain cock (cf. Gr. ουρα oura tail; L. gallus cock); "91. TETRAO. ... Urogallus. 1. T. pedibus hirsutis, rectricibus exterioribus subbrevioribus, axillis albis. Fn. svec. 166. Urogallus s. Tetrao major. Gesn. av. 491. Aldr. orn. l. 13. c. 6. Will. orn. 123. t. 30. Raj. av. 53. Muscovian. Alb. av. 2. p. 28. t. 29. 30. Habitat in Europæ frigidæ pinetis paludosis. Exæstuat in arboribus, efflans tinnitu tamquam ecstasi corripitur." (Linnaeus 1758) (Tetrao).
- Urogallus
(Phasianidae; syn. Tetrao †Great Capercaillie T. urogallus) Specific name Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758; Agassiz, 1842, writes that the generic term Urogallus is from L. urus wild ox, aurochs, and gallus cock;."*381. VROGALLVS. GESNER. Supercilia papillosa ut in TETRAONE, sed Rostrum STRIGIS, margine inflexum; mandibula inferiore minima truncata. Nares plumis tectæ. Pedes lanati. Cauda longa" (Scopoli 1777); "Urogallus "Gesner" Scopoli, 1777, Introductio ad Historiam Naturalem, p. 478. Type, by tautonymy, Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).