The Key to Scientific Names
- latispatula
- L. latus broad; spatula spatula < dim. spathe spatula.
- spatula
L. spatula spoon < dim. spatha spatula < Gr. σπαθη spathē spatula (cf. genus Spatula Boie, 1822, shoveler) (syn. Spatula clypeata).
- SPATULA
(Anatidae; Ϯ Northern Shoveler S. clypeata) L. spatula spoon < dim. spatha spatula < Gr. σπαθη spathē spatula; "The Shoveler. Anas clypeata Germanis ... its Bill is three Inches long, coal black, much broader towards the Tip than at the Base, excavated like a Buckler, of a round Circumference" (Albin 1731); "[Anas] clypeata. 16. A[nas]. rostri extremo dilatato rotundato, ungue incurvo" (Linnaeus 1758); "71. Familie. Enten, Anas. ... 152. Gattung. Spatula. 388. clypeata." (Boie 1822); "Spatula Boie, Isis von Oken, 1822, col. 564. Type, by monotypy, Anas clypeata Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 169).
Synon. Adelonetta, Anas, Clypeata, Cyanopterus, Pterocyanea, Punanetta, Querquedula, Rhynchaspis, Rhynchoplatus.- spatulata / spatulatus
Mod. L. spatulatus spatulate, spoon-shaped < L. spatula spoon < dim. spatha spatula < Gr. σπαθη spathē spatula.
