Esacus Magnirostris Bird
Esacus Magnirostris Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: OEdicnemus magnirostris Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 23 p.231
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Burhinidae / Esacus
Taxonomy Code: beathk1
Type Locality: No locality, = Australia, ex pi. G 39, f. 1, 28, 1819.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1818
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
ESACUS
(Burhinidae; Ϯ Great Stone-curlew E. recurvirostris) Gr. αισακος aisakos unidentified bird, latterly associated with the robin (!), a shorebird or cormorant (Gr. myth. Aesacus, prince of Troy and son of Priam, caused the death of the nymph Hesperie, committed suicide to share her days in eternity, and was metamorphosed into a long-necked, long-legged shorebird. Another version of the myth recalls that he married Sterope, was overcome by her premature death and, throwing himself into the sea, was metamorphosed into a cormorant); "III.e Sous-genre. ESACUS. Bec très-comprimé sur les côtés, recourbé vers en haut, de manière que la face supérieure est concave et l'inférieure convexe; obtus à sa pointe; fosses nasales latérales, larges, recouvertes par une membrane tendue; narines longitudinales, percées sur le devant et au bas de cette membrane; tarses longs, réticulés. 5.º ŒDICNÈME A BEC RECOURBÉ; Œdicnemus recurvirostris, Gal. de Paris. ... De l'Inde. ... Observ. Il paraît que ce serait dans ce sous-genre qu'il faudrait placer le charadrius crassirostris de Spix, qui nous est inconnu, et qui vit au Brésil." (Lesson 1831); "Esacus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 7, 1831, p. 547. Type, by monotypy, Oedicnemus recurvirostris Cuvier." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 297).
Var. Aesacus.
Synon. Carvanaca, Pseudops.
magnirostre / magnirostris
L. magnus great; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (Galerida).
● ex “Épervier à gros bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 464, and “Great-billed Falcon” of Latham 1781 (Rupornis).
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)