Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Here the details of the Yellow-billed Spoonbill named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Platalea flavipes Syn.BirdsAustr. pt4 App. p.7
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Threskiornithidae / Platalea
Taxonomy Code: yebspo1
Type Locality: 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).
flavipes
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; pes, pedis foot < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos foot.
● ex “Water-hen called Ochropus” of Willughby 1676, “Gallinula ochropus major” of Ray 1713, “Porphyrio rufus” of Brisson 1760, “Smirring” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow-legged Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Gallinula chloropus).
● ex “Yellowshanks” of Pennant 1785 (Tringa).
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)