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Pediocaetes
Taxonomy
Pediocaetes was named by Baird (1858). It is extant. Its type is Tetrao phasianellus.
It was corrected as Pedioecetes by Hay (1930); it was misspelled as Pedioecetes by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Parmalee and Klippel (1982); it was synonymized subjectively with Tympanuchus by Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Gallinae by Shufeldt (1891); and to Tetraonidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Parmalee and Klippel (1982).
It was corrected as Pedioecetes by Hay (1930); it was misspelled as Pedioecetes by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Parmalee and Klippel (1982); it was synonymized subjectively with Tympanuchus by Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Gallinae by Shufeldt (1891); and to Tetraonidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Parmalee and Klippel (1982).
Synonymy list
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G. Pediocaetes Baird 1858
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available