The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Ochthodromus

(Charadriidae; syn. Anarhynchus  Wilson's Plover A. wilsonia) Gr. οχθος okhthos  bank, mound, edge; -δρομος -dromos  -runner  < τρεχω trekhō  to run; "Their favorite places of resort appear to be the dry sand flats on the sea shore" (Ord in Wilson 1814); "Genera et Species typicae.  ...  d. *Ochthodromus Rchb.  Wilsonius Ord.  Ic. Av. t. 172. ic. 723. t. 173. ic. 2847—48. t. 183. ic. 664. — t. 185. ic. 1069 et 1062. t. 173. ic. 2840—41 et t. 185. ic. 1061. " (Reichenbach 1853); "Ochthodromus (not Ochthedromus Le Conte, 1848, Coleoptera) Reichenbach, 1853, Hand. Spec. Ornithol., Die Vögel, pt. 3 (1852), p. 18.  Type, by original designation, Charadrius wilsonia Ord." (AOU Checklist, 7th ed., 1998, p. 144).


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