The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Helenaegialus

(Charadriidae; syn. Anarhynchus â€  St Helena Plover A. sanctaehelenae) St Helena I.; genus Aegialus Aegialeus Reichenbach, 1853, plover; "Leucopolius  should be used for the group called by Seebohm  Ægialophili minores and falklandicus (which is placed in his Ã†gialophili majores). This is divisible into three subgeneric groups— Leucopolius (s. str.) for all save falklandicus, pecuarius, and sanctæhelenæ; PERNETTYVA (subgen. nov.), with C. falklandicus Latham as type, and HELENÆGIALUS (subgen. nov.) with A. sanctæhelenæ (Harting) as type, including pecuarius." (Mathews 1913); "Helenægialus Mathews, Bds. Australia, iii, p. 114, 1913.  Type by original designation, Ægialitis sanctæhelenæ Harting." (W. Sclater, 1924, Syst. Av. Aethiop., I, p. 119).


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