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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