Haematopus Meadewaldoi Bird

Haematopus Meadewaldoi Bird

Haematopus Meadewaldoi Bird

English Name:  Canarian Oystercatcher
Latin Name:  Haematopus meadewaldoi
Protonym:  Haematopus niger meade-waldoi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 31 p.33
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Haematopodidae / Haematopus
Taxonomy Code:  canoys1
Type Locality:  Jandia, Fuerteventura, eastern Canary Islands.
Author:  Bannerman
Publish Year:  1913
IUCN Status:  Extinct

DEFINITIONS

HAEMATOPUS
(Haematopodidae; Ϯ Eurasian Oystercatcher H. ostralegus) L. haematopus, haematopodis  blood-foot  < Gr. αἱμα haima, αἱματος haimatos  blood; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; "81. HÆMATOPUS.  Rostrum compressum: apice cuneo æquali.  Pedes tridactyli, fissi." (Linnaeus 1758): ex "Haematopus" of Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Linnaeus 1745, and Linnaeus 1746, and "Sea-Pie" of Willughby 1676, Ray 1713, and Albin 1731-1738; "Hæmatopus Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 152. Type, by monotypy, Haematopus ostralegus Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 231). Linnaeus's Haematopus comprised a single species.
Var. HimatopusHoematopus, Haemantopus, Haemotopus.
Synon. Melanibyx, Ostralega, Ostralegus, Palostralegus, Prohaematopus.

haematopus
L. haematopus, haematopodis  blood-foot  < Gr. αἱμα haima, αἱματος haimatos  blood; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.

meadewaldoi
Edmund Gustavus Bloomfield Meade-Waldo (1855-1934) English explorer, ornithologist, collector (‡Haematopus, subsp. Linaria cannabina).