The Key to Scientific Names
- arenaria / arenarius
L. arenarius of sand (e.g. inhabiting sand), relating to sand (e.g. sand coloured) < arena (properly harena) sand.
● ex “Arenaria” of Willughby 1676, Ray 1713, and Albin 1731, and “Calidris grisea minor” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Calidris alba).
● ex “Aguimp” or “Lavandière Pie” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 178 (syn. Motacilla aguimp).- ARENARIA
(Scolopacidae; Ϯ Ruddy Turnstone A. interpres) L. arenarius relating to sand < arena (properly harena) sand; "Rostro subrecto, sursum modice tendente, horizontaliter paululum compresso. . . .Arenaria. Genus 72. ... **1. LE COULON-CHAUD. ... ARENARIA. ... Les Gothlandois l'appellent TOLCK. Linn. Les Anglois, TURN-STONE; SEA-DOTTEREL ... On le trouve sur les bords de la mer ... ** 2. LE COULON-CHAUD CENDRÉ. ... Allouette de mer. Catesb. Tom. I. pag. 72." (Brisson 1760): based on "Morinellus marinus" of Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, "Tringa nigro" of Linnaeus 1746, "Tringa maritima" of Linnaeus 1748, "Gavia" or "Pluvialis Arenaria" of Klein 1750, "Cinclus" of Möhring 1752, "Turn-Stone from Hudson's-Bay" of Edwards 1753, and Tringa Interpres Linnaeus, 1758; "Arenaria Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, I, p. 48: V, p. 132. Type, by monotypy, "Arenaria" Brisson = Tringa interpres Linnaeus, 1758. The two forms listed by Brisson are the breeding and winter plumages of the Ruddy Turnstone." (JAJ 2023).
Var. Armaria.
Synon. Cinclus, Morinella, Strepsilas.
● (Scolopacidae; syn. Calidris Ϯ Sanderling C. alba) Specific name Tringa arenaria Linnaeus, 1766; "LXV. b) Gattung. Sandläufer. Arenaria *). Schnabel: Wie bey der Strandläufergattung. Füße: Eben so, nur ohne Hinterzehe. † 1. Gemeiner Sandläufer (A. vulgaris, mihi,) ... Namen: Strandläufer, Sandregerlein. Tringa arenaria. Linn. l. c. p. 680. N. 16. Charadrius Calidris. —— —— p. 689. N. 9. Bechstein, N. G. D. III. S. 194. Albini av. II. p. 48. T. 74." (Bechstein 1803); "Arenaria (not of Brisson, 1760) Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb., 2, p. 462a, 1803—type, by monotypy, Arenaria vulgaris Bechstein = Tringa arenaria Linnaeus [1766 = Trynga alba Pallas 1764]." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (3), p. 169).
Var. Prenaria.
