The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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PHALAROPUS

(Scolopacidae; Ϯ Grey Phalarope / Red Phalarope P. fulicarius) Gr. φαλαρις phalaris, φαλαριδος phalaridos  unidentified waterbird, probably the coot (and generally so used in ornithology)  < φαλαρος phalaros  having a patch of white  < φαλος phalos  white; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; “Brisson very judiciously forms a new genus under the name of Phalaropus, from the scallops on the toes like the Φαλαρις, or Coot” (Pennant 1773); "Membranis emarginatis. . .Rostro gracili, recto; mandibula superiore versus apicem deorsum inflexa. . . .Phalaropus. Genus 89.   ...   Genre du Phalarope. (1)  ...  (1) Phalarope, nom que j'ai donné aux Oiseaux de ce genre à cause de la ressemblance de leurs pieds avec ceux de la Foulque, nommée en grec φαλαρις.  ...  1. LE PHALAROPE.  ...  PHALAROPUS." (Brisson 1760): ex "Grey Coot-footed Tringa" of Edwards 1757 and Edwards 1760; "Phalaropus Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, I, p. 50: VI, p. 12.  Type, by tautonymy, "Phalaropus" Brisson = Tringa fulicaria Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2023).
Var. PhalaropaPhalaridopus, PhaleropusFalaropus.
Synon. Amblyrhynchus, Crymophilus, Holopodius, Lobipes, Steganopus.   


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