The Key to Scientific Names
- Anteliotringa
(Scolopacidae; syn. Calidris † Great Knot C. tenuirostris) Gr. αντηλιος antēlios facing the sun, eastern < αντι anti opposite; ἡλιος hēlios sun; genus Tringa Linnaeus, 1758, sandpiper; "GENUS - ANTELIOTRINGA, nov. Type Totanus tenuirostris Horsfield. ... Though this species has been classed as congeneric with Canutus canutus, I consider their relationship to be somewhat remote, as their summer-plumages differ so widely. The minute differences in the bill characters seem to indicate a similar case of convergence, as is seen in Pelidna and Erolia. ... "Mr. Swinhoe has named it the Chinese Knot. There can be little doubt, however, from the character of its seasonal changes of plumage, as well as from certain similarities of structure, that its affinities are with the Dunlin T. alpina" [Harting 1874]. ... It should be noted that Horsfield pointed out that T. tenuirostris had a slender bill, and this is the case, as the type-specimen, which I have carefully examined, is an immature bird" (Mathews 1913); "Anteliotringa Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. iii. p. 274, Aug. 18th, 1913. Type (by original designation): Totanus tenuirostris Horsfield." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 178)
- TRINGA
(Scolopacidae; † Green Sandpiper T. ochropus) Late Med. L. tringa name given to the Green Sandpiper by Aldrovandus 1599 < Gr. τρυγγας trungas thrush-sized, white-rumped wading bird that bobs its tail, mentioned by Aristotle, not further identified, but taken by later authors to be a sandpiper, wagtail, or dipper; "78. TRINGA. Rostrum teretiusculum, longitudine capitis. Pedes tetradactyli: postico uniarticulato a terra elevato." (Linnaeus 1758); "Tringa Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 148. Type, by tautonymy, Tringa ocrophus Linné (Tringa, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 264). Linnaeus's Tringa comprised thirteen species (T. Pugnax, T. Vanellus, T. Gambetta, T. Interpres, T. tobata, T. Fulicaria, T. alpina, T. Ocrophus, T. Hypoleucos, T. Canutus, T. Glareola, T. littorea, T. Squatarola).
Var. Trunga, Trynga, Tringra, Trinca, Frinca, Fringa.
Synon. Aegialodes, Carites, Catoptrophorus, Erythroscelus, Gambetta, Glottis, Helodromas, Heteractitis, Heteroscelus, Hodites, Iliornis, Limicula, Nea, Neoglottis, Ochropus, Pseudoglottis, Pseudototanus, Rhyacophilus, Totanus, Tryngas.
● (Scolopacidae; syn. Calidris † Red Knot C. canutus) "TRINGA, L. Calidris, Cuv. Actitis, Ill. T. canutus, L., Pl. enl. 365. 366. T. grisea et nævia, Gm." (G. Gray 1840); “Genus TRINGA. Type by subsequent designation of Gray (List Gen. Bds. 1st ed. 1840, p. 69): T. canutus Linn. If the method of Linnean tautonymy be followed, the type of the genus must be the Green Sandpiper, Tringa ochropus Linn. (see Smithsonian Inst. Publ. no. 1838, "Opinions rendered," 1910, p. 33). In this case the Committee have decided to use the older method of determination of the type as involving less change in current nomenclature.” (BOU, 1915, List of British Birds, 2nd ed., p. 389); "Tringa Gray, List Gen. Birds, April 1840, p. 69. Type (by original designation): Tringa canutus L. Not Linné, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 148." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 177).
● (Charadriidae; syn. Vanellus † Northern Lapwing V. vanellus) "GENUS 115. TRINGA Lin. Cuv. Lath. Dumer. Vanellus Briss. Bechst. Meyer. Parra LaCépède. (Kibitz Germ. Vanneau Gall. Lapwing Angl.) ... Species: Tringa Vanellus, varia Lin. Parra Cayennensis Lin Gmel. Observat: Tota avis, praesertim secundum rostrum, ita similis est Charadriis, ut, demto halluce, discrimen vix restet. Caeterum observo, Tringae characteres a Linnaeo enumeratos, cum solis Vanellis Auctorum quadrare, nec cum Actitibus, quas cum illis confuderat. Nomen Tringae hanc ob caussam Vanellis servandum erat" (Illiger 1811); "Tringa Illiger, 1811, Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, p. 263. New name for Vanellus Brisson, 1760." (JAJ 2021).
