Iranian Ground-Jay / Podoces pleskei

Iranian Ground-Jay / Podoces pleskei

Iranian Ground-Jay

SCI Name:  Podoces pleskei
Protonym:  Podoces pleskei AnnuaireMus.Zool.Acad.Imp.Sci.St.Petersb. 1 p.XII
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae /
Taxonomy Code:  irgjay1
Type Locality:  'Alkor'', eastern Iran.
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Publish Year:  1896
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DEFINITIONS

PODOCES
(Corvidae; Ϯ Turkestan Ground Jay P. panderi) Gr. ποδωκης podōkēs  swift-footed, quick  < πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; ωκυς ōkus  quick; "PODOCES, novum avium genus.  a ποδωκης, pedibus celer  ...  Pedes ambulatorii fortissimi tarsis longis  ... PODOCES Panderi  ...  Habitat gregarie et uti videtur transitorie in desertis retro Orenburg; - celerrime currit, parum volat.  Habitus Corvorum; ab iis vero rostro, alis pedibusque valde distans" (Fischer von Waldheim 1821); "Podoces Fischer, 1821, Lettre adressée . . .de la Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou à . . .Pander, p. 6. Type, by monotypy, Podoces panderi Fischer." (Vaurie in Peters 1962, XV, 254).
Synon. Eopodoces.

pleskei / pleskii
Fëdor Eduardovich (Dmitrievich) Pleske (1858-1932) Russian zoologist (Cyanistes hybrid, syn. Falco peregrinus japonensis, subsp. Lagopus muta, Locustella, syn. Phoenicurus ochruros rufiventris, syn. Phylloscopus collybita abietinus, Podoces, subsp. Tetrao urogallus).