Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Here the details of the Black-bellied Plover named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tringa Squatarola Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.149
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Charadriidae / Pluvialis
Taxonomy Code: bkbplo
Type Locality: Europe, restricted type locality Sweden, Hartert, antea, p. 1553.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PLUVIALIS
(Pluvialidae; Ϯ Eurasian Golden Plover P. apricaria) Specific name Charadrius pluvialis Linnaeus, 1758 (= syn. Pluvialis apricaria); "Pluvialis. Genus 69. ... Le genre du Pluvier. Genus Pluvialis. ... **1. LE PLUVIER DORÉ. ... PLUVIALIS AUREA." (Brisson 1760): based on "Pluvialis" and "Pardalus" of many authors, and Charadrius Pluvialis Linnaeus, 1758; "Pluvialis Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p. 46; 5, p. 42. Type, by tautonymy, Pluvialis aurea Brisson = Charadrius pluvialis Linné = Charadrius apricarius Linné." (Peters 1934, II, 244).
Synon. Squatarola.
pluvialis
L. pluvialis relating to rain < pluvia rain < pluere to rain.
● ex “Old Man” or “Rainbird” of Sloane 1725, “Cuculus Jamaicensis” of Brisson 1760, “Vieillard” or “Oiseau de pluie” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rain Cuckow” of Latham 1782 (Hyetornis).
● “Linnaeus attended Rudbeck’s lectures about ornithology in 1728-29 and his lecture notes are extant. About Pluvialis minor nigroflavus (= Pluvialis apricaria) he wrote: “Regnpipare ty emot regn skockas de och pipa” (They are called regnpipare because they flock together and call before rain). The obsolete Swedish name “Regnpipare” means literally “rain-caller” ” (Tommy Tyrberg in litt.); "79. CHARADRIUS. ... Pluvialis. 8. C. pedibus cinereis, corpore nigro viridique maculato, subtus albido. Fn. svec. 157. Pluvialis viridis. Will. orn. 229. t. 57. Raj. av. 111. Sloan. jam. 2. p. 113. t. 269. f. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 71. t. 75. Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Pluvialis apricaria).
squatarola
Venetian name Sgatarola for a kind of plover; "78. TRINGA. ... Squatarola. 13. T. rostro nigro; pedibus virescentibus, corpore griseo subtus albido. Fn. svec. 155. Pluvialis cinerea. Raj. av. 111. Alb. av. I. p. 72. t. 76. Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Pluvialis).
Squatarola
(syn. Pluvialis Ϯ Grey Plover P. squatarola) Specific name Tringa squatarola Linnaeus, 1758; "Encore la première tribu, les VANNEAUX-PLUVIERS (SQUATAROLA. Cuv.), l'ont-ils à peine perceptible. On la distingue par son bec renflé en dessous, et dont la fosse nazale est courte comme aux œdicnèmes [Burhinus]. ... Ils ne forment, dit-on, qu'une espèce, que ses variations de plumage ont fait multiplier. ... Le Vanneau gris. (Tringa squatarola.) Enl. 854." (Cuvier 1817); "Squatarola Cuvier, Règne Anim., 1, 1817 (1816), p. 467. Type, by tautonymy, Tringa squatarola Linné." (Peters 1934, II, 243). Var. Squatarula, Squatarolla, Squaterola, Squartarola, Scuatarola.
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)