The Key to Scientific Names
- recurvirostra / recurvirostris
L. recurvus bent backwards < recurvare to bend; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Jamaica Shoveler” of Latham 1785 (syn. Oxyura jamaicensis).- RECURVIROSTRA
(Recurvirostridae; † Pied Avocet R. avosetta) L. recurvus bent, curved backwards < recurvare to bend; rostrum beak; "80. RECURVIROSTRA. Rostrum depresso-planum, acuminatum, recurvatum. Pedes palmati, tetradactyli." (Linnaeus 1758): based on "Avosetta" or "Recurvirostra" of Gessner 1555, "Avosetta" of Ray 1713, "Recurvirostra Avosetta Italorum" of Albin 1731, and "Recurvirostra albo nigroque varia" of Linnaeus 1745; "Recurvirostra Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 151. Type, by monotypy, Recurvirostra avosetta Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 290). Linnaeus's Recurvirostra comprised a single species.
Synon. Avocetta, Trochilus.
● (Recurvirostridae; syn. Cladorhynchus † Banded Stilt C. leucocephalus) "Fam. Charadriadae ... Recurvirostra Lin.: orientalis Cuv. u. 5 andere." (Boie 1826); "Recurvirostra Boie, Isis, 1826, Heft x. col. 979, Oct. Type (by monotypy): R. orientalis Cuvier = R. leucocephala Vieillot. Not of Linné, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 151, Jan. 1st, 1758." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 164).
