The Key to Scientific Names
- macrotarsus
Gr. μακρος makros long; Mod. L. tarsus shank, leg < Gr. ταρσος tarsos flat of the foot.
- Macrotarsus
(Recurvirostridae; syn. Himantopus † Black-winged Stilt H. himantopus) Gr. μακρος makros long; Mod. L. tarsus shank, leg < Gr. ταρσος tarsos flat of the foot; "119. ÉCHASSE, Macrotarsus. Tarse long et grêle; chaque pied ne présentant que trois doigts." (de Lacépède in Daudin 1799); "Macrotarsus Lacepède, Tabl. Ois. p. 18, Dec. 1799. Species added by Daudin, in Hist. Nat. Buffon, ed. Didot, Quadr. vol. xiv. p. 336 [1799=] Oct. 1802. Type (by monotypy): C. himantopus Linné. Not of Link, Beytr. Nat. i. (2) pp. 51, 65, 1795." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, 163); "Macrotarsus Lacépède, Tabl. Méth. Ois., p. 18, 1799—type, by subs. desig. (Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 24, p. 309, 1896), Charadrius himantopus Linnaeus." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (3), p. 209).
● see Macrotarsius
