Turkestan Ground-Jay

Turkestan Ground-Jay / Podoces panderi

Turkestan Ground-Jay

Here the details of the Turkestan Ground-Jay named bird below:

SCI Name:  Podoces panderi
Protonym:  Podoces Panderi Lett.adresseePander p.6
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tugjay1
Type Locality:  Kyzyl Kum.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1821
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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.

panderi
Heinz Christian Pander also known as Christian-Heinrich von Pander (1794-1865) Baltic German geologist, pioneer embryologist, palaeontologist (syn. Parus bokharensis, Podoces).