Glareola Lactea Bird
Glareola Lactea Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Glareola lactea Man.Orn.[Temminck].ed.2 ed.2, 2 p.503
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Glareolidae / Glareola
Taxonomy Code: smapra1
Type Locality: Bengal.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1820
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GLAREOLA
(Glareolidae; Ϯ Collared Pratincole G. pratincola) Mod. L. glareola little gravel (bird) < dim. L. glarea gravel; "Glareola. Genus 73. ... Genus Glareolæ Le genre de la Perdrix-de-mer. ... **1. LA PERDRIX-DE-MER. ... GLAREOLA. ... On la trouve sur les bords de la mer, des rivieres & des étangs" (Brisson 1760): ex "Koppriegerle" of Gessner 1555, "Hirundo marina" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Jonston 1650-1653 and Charleton 1668, "Glareola" and "Sand-Vogel" of Schwenkfeld 1603, and "Pratincola" of Kramer 1756; "Glareola Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p. 48; 5, p. 141. Type, by tautonymy, Glareola Brisson = Hirundo pratincola Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 303).
Var. Glareolea, Glariola.
Synon. Dromochelidon, Galachrysia, Pratincola, Subglareola, Trachelia.
glareola
Dim. < L. glarea gravel (probably used in the broadest sense of waterside habitat).
● "109. Charadrius Glareola F. (Fig. pict. G.) Charadrius fuscus, pectore abdomineque rufescentibus, remigibus fuscis 6—10 medio, 11—12 apice albis. Habitat ad littora glareosa insulae australis Novae Zeelandiae. Corpus magnitudine circiter Scolopacis rusticolae." (Forster 1844 (ed. Lichtenstein)) (syn. Charadrius obscurus).
● ex Glareola Brisson, 1760, pratincole, and Glareola austriaca J. Gmelin, 1798 (syn. Glareola pratincola).
● "78. TRINGA. ... Glareola. 11. T. rostro lævi, pedibus virescentibus, corpore albo punctato, pectore subalbido. Fn. svec. 152. Habitat in Europa.” (Linnaeus 1758) (Tringa).
lactea
L. lacteus milky, milk-white < lac, lactis milk.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)