The Key to Scientific Names
- 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. Phalaropa, Phalaridopus, Phaleropus, Falaropus.
Synon. Amblyrhynchus, Crymophilus, Holopodius, Lobipes, Steganopus.