Charadrius Melodus Bird

English Name:  Piping Plover
Latin Name:  Charadrius melodus
Protonym:  Charadrius melodus Am.Orn.[reprintOrd] 7 p.71
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Charadriidae / Charadrius
Taxonomy Code:  pipplo
Type Locality:  Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey.
Author:  Ord
Publish Year:  1824
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

CHARADRIUS
(Charadriidae; Ϯ Ringed Plover C. hiaticula) Late L. charadrius yellowish bird mentioned in the Vulgate Bible (late 4^th century) < Gr. χαραδριος kharadrios  unknown plain-coloured nocturnal bird that dwelt in ravines and river valleys  < χαραδρα kharadra  ravine. According to some authors the sight of it was said to cure jaundice. Early identifications included the Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus; "79. CHARADRIUS.  Rostrum teretiusculum, obtusum.  Pedes tridactyli." (Linnaeus 1758); "Charadrius Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 150. Type, by tautonymy, Charadrius hiaticula Linné. (Charadrios s. Hiaticula Aldrovandus, prebinomial specific name in synonymy.)" (Peters, 1934, II, p. 245). Linnaeus's Charadrius comprised eleven species (C. cristatus, C. Hiaticula, C. alexandrinus, C. vociferus, C. ægyptius, C. Morinellus, C. apricarius, C. Pluvialis, C. Oedicnemus, C. Himantopus, C. spinosus).   
Var. Charadrias, Charadias.   
Synon. Aegialeus, Aegialitis, Aegialophilus, Afraegialis, Afroxyechus, Cirrepidesmus, Eupoda, Eupodella, Helenaegialus, Hiaticula, Hyetoceryx, Leucopolius, Neocharadrius, Nesoceryx, Ochthodromus, Oxyechus, Pagoa, Pagolla, Paroxyechus, Pernettyva, Pipus, Pluviorhynchus, Podasocys, Zonibyx.

melodus
L. melodus  melodious  < Gr. μελωδος melōdos  musical  < μελος melos  song.
● ex Charadrius hiaticula var. of A. Wilson, 1812; "This species was described by Wilson in vol. v, American Ornithology, p. 30, under the name of Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula, confusing it with another species and regarding it as a different plumage phase" (Trotter 1907) (Charadrius).