Caspian Snowcock

Here the details of the Caspian Snowcock named bird below:

SCI Name:  Tetraogallus caspius
Protonym:  Tetrao caspius ReisedurchRussland 4 p.67 pl.10
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Phasianidae / Tetraogallus
Taxonomy Code:  cassno1
Type Locality:  Prov. of Astarabad, northern Persia.
Author:  Gmelin, SG
Publish Year:  1784
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TETRAOGALLUS
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Himalayan Snowcock T. himalayensis) Compound of genera Tetrao Linnaeus, 1758, grouse, and Gallus Brisson, 1760, fowl; "NIGELL'S PHEASANT-GROUSE. TETRAOGALLUS NIGELLII Gray [pl. 46]" (J. Gray 1832); "Tetraogallus J. E. Gray, in Hardwicke's Ill. Ind. Zool., 2, pt. 11, 1832, pl. 46. Type, by monotypy, Tetraogallus nigellii J. E. Gray (not Lophophorus nigelli Jardine and Selby) = Tetraogallus himalayensis G. R. Gray." (Peters 1934, II, 60).
Var. Setraogallus.
Synon. Chourtka, Megaloperdix, Montigallus, Oreotetrax.

caspius
L. Caspius Caspian, of the Caspian Sea < Caspium mare.

SUBSPECIES

Caspian Snowcock (caspius)
SCI Name: Tetraogallus caspius caspius
caspius
L. Caspius Caspian, of the Caspian Sea < Caspium mare.

Caspian Snowcock (semenowtianschanskii)
SCI Name: Tetraogallus caspius semenowtianschanskii
semenowtianschanskii
Andrei Pyotrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1866-1942) Russian entomologist, taxonomist, explorer in Transcaspia and Turkistan 1888-1889 (subsp. Ketupa zeylonensis, subsp. Tetraogallus caspius).