The Key to Scientific Names
- glareola
Dim. < L. glarea gravel (probably used in the broadest sense of waterside habitat).
● "109. Charadrius Glareola F. (Fig. pict. G.) Charadrius fuscus, pectore abdomineque rufescentibus, remigibus fuscis 6—10 medio, 11—12 apice albis. Habitat ad littora glareosa insulae australis Novae Zeelandiae. Corpus magnitudine circiter Scolopacis rusticolae." (Forster 1844 (ed. Lichtenstein)) (syn. Charadrius obscurus).
● ex Glareola Brisson, 1760, pratincole, and Glareola austriaca J. Gmelin, 1798 (syn. Glareola pratincola).
● "78. TRINGA. ... Glareola. 11. T. rostro lævi, pedibus virescentibus, corpore albo punctato, pectore subalbido. Fn. svec. 152. Habitat in Europa.” (Linnaeus 1758) (Tringa).- GLAREOLA
(Glareolidae; Ϯ Collared Pratincole G. pratincola) Mod. L. glareola little gravel (bird) < dim. L. glarea gravel; "Rostro superne convexo, apice lateraliter compresso. . . .Glareola. Genus 73. ... Genus Glareolæ Le genre de la Perdrix-de-mer. ... **1. LA PERDRIX-DE-MER. ... GLAREOLA. ... On la trouve sur les bords de la mer, des rivieres & des étangs" (Brisson 1760): ex "Koppriegerle" of Gessner 1555, "Hirundo marina" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Jonston 1650-1653 and Charleton 1668, "Glareola" and "Sand-Vogel" of Schwenkfeld 1603, and "Pratincola" of Kramer 1756; "Glareola Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, I, p. 48: V, p. 141. Type, by Linnaean tautonymy, "Glareola" Brisson = Hirundo pratincola Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2023).
Var. Glareolea, Glariola.
Synon. Dromochelidon, Galachrysia, Pratincola, Subglareola, Trachelia.- Griseoglareola
(Glareolidae; syn. Glareola † Grey Pratincole G. cinerea) Med. L. griseum grey; genus Glareola Brisson, 1760, pratincole (JG; see Manuscript-names).
- Subglareola
(Glareolidae; syn. Glareola † Madagascar Pratincole G. ocularis) L. sub near to); genus Glareola Brisson 1760, pratincole; "In the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum a number of species are classed under the generic name Galactochrysea. The correct spelling is Galachrysia (Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 419, 1856), introduced for lactea and cinerea. These species are miniatures of Glareola, with a short, forked tail and form quite a distinct little group. With these, however, Sharpe associated Glareola ocularis Verreaux (S. Afr. Quart. Journ., Vol. II., p. 80, 1833), but this species is a typical Glareola in size, coloration, and detail, save that it lacks the long, deeply-forked tail, having a short, slightly forked one. I would separate it as a new genus under the name SUBGLAREOLA, with G. ocularis Verreaux as type." (Mathews 1913); "Subglareola Mathews, 1913, Birds of Australia, III (4), p. 321. Type, by original designation, Glareola ocularis Verreaux, 1833." (JAJ 2021). It has recently been suggested that this polytypic genus be recognised and reinstated.
Var. Subglarcola.
