The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Hyetoceryx

(Charadriidae; syn. Anarhynchus  Red-breasted Plover A. obscurus) Gr. ὑετος huetos  rain; κηρυξ kērux,  κηρυκος kērukos  herald; "Genus Hyetoceryx Heine [Pluviorhynchus (!) Bp. 1856]" (Heine 1890); "Hyetoceryx Heine in Heine and Reichenow, 1890, Nomencl. Musei Heineani Ornith., p. 336.  New name for Pluviorhynchus Bonaparte, 1856, a French and Greek hybrid combination considered barbarous." (JAJ 2021).


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