The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Podasocys
(Charadriidae; syn. Anarhynchus † Mountain Plover A. montanus) Gr. ποδας οκυς podas okus swift-footed (an epithet of the hero Achilles) < πους pous, ποδος podos foot; ωκυς ōkus quick; "PODASOCYS* Coues, nov. gen. ... Type. Charadrius montanus Towns. ... *From the Homeric epithet ποδας οκυς - "swift-footed."" (Coues 1866); "Podasocys Coues, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 18: 96. Type, by original designation, Charadrius montanus Townsend." (AOU Checklist, 7th ed., 1998, p. 144).
Var. Podosocys.
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