Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Here the details of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tringa subruficollis Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 34 p.465
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Scolopacidae / Calidris
Taxonomy Code: bubsan
Type Locality: Paraguay, ex Azara, no. 320.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1819
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
CALIDRIS
(Scolopacidae; † Red Knot C. canutus) Specific name Tringa calidris J. Gmelin, 1789 (= syn. Calidris canutus); "Knüffel, Calidris. Schnabel walzenförmig, gegen die Spitze hin dicker, glatt. Mittlere und äußere Zehe etwas verbunden. Tringa calidris, arenaria u.a." (Merrem 1804); "LES MAUBÈCHES. (CALIDRIS. Cuv.) (1) ... La grande Maubèche grise, Sandpiper et Canut, des Anglais. (Tringa grisea et Tr. Canutus. Gm.) Le plum. d'hiver, enl. 366. Edw. 276. ... (1) CALIDRIS, oiseau cendré et tacheté, fréquentant les rivières et les bois. Arist. Brisson l'applique à l'une des espèces de ce genre" (Cuvier 1817); "Calidris Anonymous = Merrem, Allg. Lit. Zeitung, 2, no. 168, 8 June, 1804, col. 542. Type, by tautonymy, Tringa calidris Gmelin = Tringa canutus Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 280).
Var. Calidridris, Callidris, Callydris, Calydris, Chalidris.
Synon. Actia, Actodromas, Ancylocheilus, Anteliotringa, Aphriza, Arquatella, Canutus, Cinclus, Delopygia, Ereunetes, Erolia, Eurynorhynchus, Falcinellus, Hemipalama, Heteropoda, Heteropygia, Leimonites, Limicola, Limnocinclus, Machetes, Machophilus, Micropalama, Neopisobia, Pavia, Pavoncella, Pelidna, Philomachus, Pisobia, Platyrhamphus, Schoeniclus, Schoeniculus, Symphemia, Tryngites.
• (Scolopacidae; syn. Calidris † Sanderling C. alba) Specific name Charadrius calidris Linnaeus, 1766 (= syn. Calidris alba); "GENUS 89. CALIDRIS. Arenaria Meyer, Bechstein (Sandläufer Germ. Sanderling Angl.). Rostrum mediocre, tenue, rectum, teretiusculum, maxillae dertro paullulum incrassato, in apicem deflexo. Nares parvae, oblongo-ovales. Alae volatiles. Pedes grallarii, mediocres, cursorii, tridactyli, digitis ad basin usque fissis. Acropodia scutulata. Species: Charadrius Calidris Lin." (Illiger 1811); "Calidris ILLIGER, Prodromus, 1811, 249. Type, by [tautonymy and] monotypy, Charadrius calidris LINNÆUS = Tringa leucophæa PALLAS [= Trynga alba Pallas]." (AOU Check-List, ed. 3, 1910, 118); ""Tringa leucophaea" Anonymous (in Vroeg's Cat. Rais. d'Ois., p. 32, 1764—northern coast of Holland) is not binomial." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (3), p. 171, footnote).
Synon. Arenaria, Arenula, Crocethia.
calidris
Gr. καλιδρις kalidris or σκαλιδρις skalidris speckled, grey-coloured waterside bird mentioned by Aristotle, not further identified, but later conjectured to be a sandpiper or a wagtail.
● ex "Petite Maubèche grise" of Brisson 1760 (syn. Calidris alba).
● "Der südliche Schlammläufer. Pelidna calidris, Br. (Tringa alpina, Linn.)" (Brehm 1831) (syn. Calidris alpina).
● ex “Rusticola sylvatica” of Gessner 1555, and Aldrovandus 1599-1603, and “Calidris” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Calidris canutus).
● ex “Totanus” of Belon 1555, and Brisson 1760, “Calidris Bellonii” of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, and “Gallinula erythropus major” of Willughby 1676, Ray 1713, and Marsigli 1726 (syn. Tringa totanus).
● ex “American Nightingale” of Edwards 1750 (unident.).
subruficollis
● L. subrufus reddish < sub somewhat; rufus rufous; Mod. L. -collis
-necked, -throated < L. collum neck; ex “Chorlito garganta blanca acanelada” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 403 (Calidris).
● L. sub near to; specific name Buceros ruficollis Vieillot, 1816 (= syn. Rhyticeros plicatus) (Rhyticeros).
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)