South American Painted-Snipe / Nycticryphes semicollaris
South American Painted-Snipe
SCI Name:
Protonym: Totanus semi-collaris Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 6 p.402
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Rostratulidae / Nycticryphes
Taxonomy Code: soapas1
Type Locality: Paraguay, ex Azara no. 405.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1816
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NYCTICRYPHES
(Rostratulidae; Ϯ South American Painted-snipe N. semicollaris) Gr. νυκτι- nukti- nocturnal, night- < νυξ nux, νυκτος nuktos night; κρυφη kruphē in secret; "Nycticryphes, gen. nov. Characters.— Similar to Rostratula Vieillot but bill more decurved at tip; tip of bill expanded, with the distal end distinctly pitted; a median groove on the gonys; a slight web between outer and median toes; tail strongly wedge shaped; median rectrices tapered, soft in structure at the tip; median upper and lower coverts longer than the lateral rectrices. Type.— Totanus semi-collaris Vieillot which will now stand as Nycticryphes semicollaris (Vieillot). Remarks.— As the genus Rhynchaea Cuvier [1817] has Scolopax capensis Linnaeus as type it is a synonym of Rostratula. Rynchina Fleming [1822] and Rhynchæna Gloger [1842] are emendations of Rhynchæa Cuvier. Though superficially similar to the Old World painted snipes, the South American species is strikingly different in structural characters." (Wetmore & J. Peters 1923).
semicollaris
L. semi- half-, semi- < semis, semissis half < as, assis whole; collaris collared < collum neck.
● ex “Chorlito golas obscura y blanca” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 405 (Nycticryphes).
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)