The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Ptiloscelys
(Charadriidae; syn. Vanellus † Andean Lapwing V. resplendens) Specific name Vanellus ptiloscelis G. Gray & Mitchell, 1847 (= syn. Ptiloscelys resplendens): "the tibia sometimes covered with feathers nearly to the knee"; "40. Ptiloscelys, Bp. 101. resplendens, Tschudi. (V. ptiloscelys, Gr.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Ptiloscelys Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, 1856, p. 419. Type, by monotypy, Charadrius resplendens Tschudi." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 242).
Var. Ptiloscelis.
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