Royal Spoonbill

Here the details of the Royal Spoonbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Platalea regia
Protonym:  Platalea regia Syn.BirdsAustr. pt4 App. p.7
Taxonomy:  Pelecaniformes / Threskiornithidae / Platalea
Taxonomy Code:  royspo1
Type Locality:  east coast of New South Wales.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PLATALEA
(Threskiornithidae; Ϯ Eurasian Spoonbill P. leucorodia) L. platalea  spoonbill; "73. PLATALEA.  Rostrum planiusculum: apice dilatato, orbiculato, plano.  Pedes tetradactyli, semipalmati." (Linnaeus 1758); "Platalea Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 139. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 67), Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus." (Steinbacher in Peters 1979, I, ed. 2, 266). Linnaeus's Platalea comprised three species (P. Leucorodia, P. Ajaja, P. pygmea).
Var. Platelea, Platalaea, Platea (L. platea  spoonbill).
Synon. Ajaia, Leucerodia, Mystrorhamphus, Pelecanus, Platibis, Spatherodia.

platalea
L. platalea spoonbill.
● ex “Pato espátula” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 431 (Spatula).

regia
L. regius  royal  < rex, regis  king  < regere  to rule.
● ex Sterna cayana Audubon, 1835 (syn. Thalasseus maximus).
● ex “Veuve de la Côte d’Afrique” of Brisson 1760 (Vidua).