The Key to Scientific Names

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Anomalophrys

(Charadriidaesyn. Vanellus Ϯ Brown-chested Plover V. superciliosus) Gr. ανωμαλος anōmalos  strange  < negative prefix αν- an- ; ομαλος omalos  even; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow, brow; unlike the adult bird, the juvenile Brown-chested Plover has broad rusty eyebrows; "16. ANOMALOPHRYS.  ... 1. Anomalophrys superciliosus.  Lobivanellus superciliosus, Reichen. J. f. O., p. 116, pl. iii, fig. 2, imm." (Sharpe 1896); "Anomalophrys Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 24, 1896, p. 145 (in key), p. 156. Type, by monotypy, Lobivanellus superciliosus Reichenow." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 242). 


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