Temminck's Stint

SCI Name:  Calidris temminckii
Protonym:  Tringa Temminckii Nachtr.Bechst.Naturgesch.Deutschland pt1 p.64
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Scolopacidae / Calidris
Taxonomy Code:  temsti
Type Locality:  Hanau am Main, Germany.
Author:  Leisler
Publish Year:  1812
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.).

temmincki / temminckii / temminkii
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858) Dutch ornithologist (subsp. Accipiter melanoleucus, Aethopyga, syn. Anser erythropus, syn. Arachnothera crassirostris, syn. Ardea sumatrana, Calidris, syn. Calyptorhynchus lathami, syn. Cecropis daurica rufula, syn. Colinus cristatus, Columba artefact (ex Columba auricularis Temminck, 1813), Coracias (ex “Rollier Temminck” of Levaillant 1806), Coracina, syn. Corydon sumatranus (ex Eurylaimus corydon Temminck, 1824), syn. Crax rubra (ex “Red Peruvian Hen” of Albin 1738, and Crax rubra Temminck, 1815), Cursorius, syn. Dendrexetastes rufigula, syn. Ducula perspicillata, syn. Gallus varius x hybrid, syn. Harpactes kasumba, syn. Heliomaster squamosus, syn. Lobotos lobatus, Lyncornis, subsp. Myophonus caeruleus, syn. Nipponia nippon (ex Ibis nippon Temminck, 1835), Orthonyx, Picoides, Picumnus, syn. Prunella montanella, syn. Pterophanes cyanopterus, Ptilinopus, syn. Ramphastos vitellinus ariel, syn. Sittasomus griseicapillus sylviellus (ex Dendrocolaptes sylviellus Temminck, 1821), syn. Synthliboramphus wumisuzume, Tragopan (ex “Chinese Horned Pheasant” of Hardwicke 1831)).