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Pyrrhocorax graculus (yellow-billed chough)

Osteichthyes - Passeriformes - Corvidae

Taxonomy
Corvus graculus was named by Linnaeus (1766). It is extant.

It was recombined as Pyrrhocorax graculus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927), Rudenko (1960), Weesie (1988), Seguí et al. (1997), Burchak-Abramovich and Burchak (1998), Mlikovsky (2002), Pavia and Bedetti (2003), Bedetti and Pavia (2007), Bedetti and Pavia (2013), Clements et al. (2017), Carrera et al. (2018), Marqueta et al. (2025).

Entered
by E. Fara on 2007-02-16; modified by M. Clapham on 2018-02-10

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1766Corvus graculus Linnaeus
1927Pyrrhocorax graculus Boule and De Villeneuve p. 84
1960Pyrrhocorax graculus Rudenko
1988Pyrrhocorax graculus Weesie p. 45 figs. Pl 8, figs 15-18
1997Pyrrhocorax graculus Seguí et al. p. 243
1998Pyrrhocorax graculus Burchak-Abramovich and Burchak p. 59
2002Pyrrhocorax graculus Mlikovsky p. 238
2003Pyrrhocorax graculus Pavia and Bedetti p. 168 figs. Pl 1, fig 10
2007Pyrrhocorax graculus Bedetti and Pavia p. 499 figs. Pl 2, figs K,M
2013Pyrrhocorax graculus Bedetti and Pavia p. 45
2017Pyrrhocorax graculus Clements et al.
2018Pyrrhocorax graculus Carrera et al. p. 160
2025Pyrrhocorax graculus Marqueta et al. p. 63 fig. 4D

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
orderPasseriformesLinnaeus 1758
familyCorvidaeVigors 1825
genusPyrrhocoraxTunstall 1771
speciesgraculus(Linnaeus 1766)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus 1766 [yellow-billed chough]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available