Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Albanian | Gjeli i egër |
Asturian | Faisñn montñs |
Basque | Basoilarra |
Bulgarian | Глухар |
Catalan | gall fer comú |
Chinese (SIM) | 西方松鸡 |
Croatian | tetrijeb gluhan |
Czech | tetřev hlušec |
Danish | Tjur |
Dutch | Auerhoen |
English | Western Capercaillie |
English (United States) | Western Capercaillie |
Finnish | metso |
French | Grand Tétras |
French (France) | Grand Tétras |
Galician | Pita do monte |
German | Auerhuhn |
Greek | (Δυτικός) Αγριόκουρκος |
Hebrew | שכווי ענק |
Hungarian | Siketfajd |
Icelandic | Þiður |
Italian | Gallo cedrone |
Japanese | ヨーロッパオオライチョウ |
Latvian | Mednis |
Lithuanian | Kurtinys |
Mongolian | Эгэл сойр |
Norwegian | storfugl |
Polish | głuszec |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Galo-montês |
Romanian | Cocoș de munte |
Russian | Глухарь |
Serbian | Veliki tetreb |
Slovak | hlucháň hôrny |
Slovenian | Divji petelin |
Spanish | Urogallo Común |
Spanish (Spain) | Urogallo común |
Swedish | tjäder |
Turkish | Büyük Orman Tavuğu |
Ukrainian | Глушець білодзьобий |
Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758
PROTONYM:
Tetrao Urogallus
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1, p.159.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Europe, restricted type locality, Sweden.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- TETRAO
- tetrao
- urogallus
- Urogallus
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus Scientific name definitions
Eduardo de Juana and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated December 6, 2015
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated December 6, 2015
Revision History
Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus
Authors
Eduardo de Juana and Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
de Juana, E. and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.wescap1.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- December 6, 2015
- Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus
Authors
Eduardo de Juana and Guy M. Kirwan
Revisors
Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
de Juana, E. and G. M. Kirwan (2015). Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.