The Key to Scientific Names
- ELSEYORNIS
(Charadriidae; Ϯ Black-fronted Dotterel E. melanops) Genus Elseya Mathews, 1913, dotterel; Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "ELSEYORNIS, nom. nov. must replace Elseya Mathews. I introduced the latter name in the Birds of Australia, Vol. II, pp. 125, 135, 1913, for Charadrius melanops Vieillot, but through an unfortunate oversight did not recognise its invalidity by its prior use by Grandidier, Revue de Zool., p. 232, 1867. The species name must read Elseyornis melanops, the two subspecies admitted being Elseyornis m. melanops and E. m. russatus." (Mathews 1914); "Elseyornis Mathews, 1914, Austral Avian Record, II, p. 87. New name for Elseya Mathews, 1913, not of Grandidier, 1867 (Testudines)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Elsyornis.
Synon. Elseya.
