The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Rhimphalea

(Glareolidae; syn. Stiltia † Australian Pratincole S. isabella) Gr. ῥιμφαλεος rhimphaleos  swift, light; "Genus Rhimphalea Heine  [Stiltia (!)] Bp. 1854." (Heine 1890); "Rhimphalea Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, 1890, Nomencl. Musei Heineani Ornith., p. 338.  New name for Stiltia Bonaparte, 1854, i.e. G. Gray, 1855, considered barbarous by reason of its vernacular roots." (JAJ 2020).


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