Variable Oystercatcher / Haematopus unicolor
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Variable Oystercatcher
SCI Name:
Protonym: Haematopus unicolor Descr.Anim.itin.MarisAust.Terr.ed.Licht. p.112
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Haematopodidae / Haematopus
Taxonomy Code: varoys1
Type Locality: New Holland = New Zealand.
Author: Forster, JR
Publish Year: 1844
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HAEMATOPUS
(Haematopodidae; Ϯ Eurasian Oystercatcher H. ostralegus) L. haematopus, haematopodis blood-foot < Gr. αἱμα haima, αἱματος haimatos blood; πους pous, ποδος podos foot; "81. HÆMATOPUS. Rostrum compressum: apice cuneo æquali. Pedes tridactyli, fissi." (Linnaeus 1758): ex "Haematopus" of Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Linnaeus 1745, and Linnaeus 1746, and "Sea-Pie" of Willughby 1676, Ray 1713, and Albin 1731-1738; "Hæmatopus Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 152. Type, by monotypy, Haematopus ostralegus Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 231). Linnaeus's Haematopus comprised a single species.
Var. Himatopus, Hoematopus, Haemantopus, Haemotopus.
Synon. Melanibyx, Ostralega, Ostralegus, Palostralegus, Prohaematopus.
haematopus
L. haematopus, haematopodis blood-foot < Gr. αἱμα haima, αἱματος haimatos blood; πους pous, ποδος podos foot.
unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris plain, uniform, of one colour < uni- single- < unus one; color, coloris colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).
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)
