Named for Pterocles alchata, or pin-tailed sandgrouse. {It belongs to the Pteroclidae family and is one of the birds on the ‘List of Endangered Birds in Europe’.} (M 33792; M 34089) _ _.
Discovered on 29-9-1973 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.