The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Alphagygis

(Laridae; syn. Gygis Common White Tern G. alba candida) Gr. αλφα alpha  first; genus Gygis Wagler, 1832, tern; "ALPHAGYGIS new name for Gygis Wagner 1832, not Gyges Bory de St. Vincent 1825." (Mathews 1914); "Alphagygis Mathews, 1914, Austral Avian Record, II, p. 110.  New name for Gygis Wagner, i.e. Wagler, 1832, considered preoccupied by Gyges Bory de St. Vincent, 1825 (Protozoa)." (JAJ 2021).


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