Malaysian Plover
Malaysian Plover
Here the details of the Malaysian Plover named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Charadrius peroni Mus.Hist.Pays-BasRev.Meth.Crit.Coll. livr.7 Cursores no.29 p.33
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Charadriidae / Charadrius
Taxonomy Code: malplo1
Type Locality: L''Archipel Indien.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1865
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
CHARADRIUS
(Charadriidae; Ϯ Ringed Plover C. hiaticula) Late L. charadrius yellowish bird mentioned in the Vulgate Bible (late 4th 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.
peroni / peronii
● Peron Peninsula, Western Australia (syn. Acanthiza apicalis whitlocki, syn. Calamanthus campestris rubiginosus).
● François Auguste Péron (1775-1810) French Army 1792-1794, naturalist with Baudin’s expedition 1800-1804, pioneer anthropologist and oceanographer (Charadrius, syn. Dendrocygna arcuata australis, ‡syn. Dromaius baudinianus, Geokichla).
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)