Broad-billed Sandpiper Calidris falcinellus Scientific name definitions
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- Names (60)
- Subspecies (2)
Jan van Gils, Popko Wiersma, and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated March 26, 2016
Text last updated March 26, 2016
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Breëbekstrandloper |
| Albanian | Vrapuesi sqepshtypur |
| Arabic | دريجة عريضة المنقار |
| Armenian | Տիղմակտցար |
| Asturian | Mazaricu falcinelu |
| Azerbaijani | Lil cüllütü |
| Bangla (India) | কুঁড়ো বাটান |
| Basque | Txirri hankalaburra |
| Bulgarian | Блатобегач |
| Catalan | territ becadell |
| Chinese | 寬嘴鷸 |
| Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China) | 闊嘴鷸 |
| Chinese (SIM) | 阔嘴鹬 |
| Croatian | plosnatokljuni žalar |
| Czech | jespáček ploskozobý |
| Danish | Kærløber |
| Dutch | Breedbekstrandloper |
| English | Broad-billed Sandpiper |
| English (AVI) | Broad-billed Sandpiper |
| English (United States) | Broad-billed Sandpiper |
| Estonian | plütt |
| Faroese | Mórugrælingur |
| Finnish | jänkäsirriäinen |
| French | Bécasseau falcinelle |
| French (Canada) | Bécasseau falcinelle |
| Galician | Pilro de bico groso |
| Georgian | თავზოლა მექვიშია (მეტალახია) |
| German | Sumpfläufer |
| Greek | Ραβδοσκαλίδρα |
| Gujarati | શ્વેતનેણ કીચડિયો |
| Hebrew | חרמשית |
| Hungarian | Sárjáró |
| Icelandic | Efjutíta |
| Indonesian | Kedidi paruh-lebar |
| Italian | Gambecchio frullino |
| Japanese | キリアイ |
| Kannada | ಅಗಲಕೊಕ್ಕಿನ ಉಲ್ಲಂಕಿ |
| Kazakh | Тұнбашы |
| Korean | 송곳부리도요 |
| Latvian | Dūņšņibītis |
| Lithuanian | Plokščiasnapis bėgikas |
| Malayalam | വരയൻ മണലൂതി |
| Mongolian | Сянби элсэг |
| Norwegian | fjellmyrløper |
| Persian | تلیله نوکپهن |
| Polish | biegus płaskodzioby |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Pilrito-de-bico-grosso |
| Punjabi (India) | ਸਾਂਘਾ ਰੇਤਲ ਚਾਹਾ |
| Romanian | Prundăraș de nămol |
| Russian | Грязовик |
| Serbian | Pljosnokljuna sprutka |
| Slovak | brehárik ploskozobý |
| Slovenian | Ploskokljunec |
| Spanish | Correlimos Falcinelo |
| Spanish (Spain) | Correlimos falcinelo |
| Swedish | myrsnäppa |
| Thai | นกชายเลนปากกว้าง |
| Turkish | Sürmeli Kumkuşu |
| Ukrainian | Побережник болотяний |
| Zulu | unothwayizonomlomomkhulu |
Calidris falcinellus (Pontoppidan, 1763)
PROTONYM:
Scolopax Falcinellus
Pontoppidan, 1763. Den Danske Atlas eller Konge-Riget Dannemark (etc.) 1, p.623.
TYPE LOCALITY:
No locality = Siaelandia ex Orn. Boreal., p. 49.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2024
Definitions
- CALIDRIS
- calidris
- falcinellus
- Falcinellus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
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Introduction
Subspecies
SUBSPECIES
Calidris falcinellus falcinellus Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Scandinavia and NW Russia; winters from E Africa (rarely to South Africa) through S Red Sea and Arabia to W and S India and Sri Lanka.
Calidris falcinellus falcinellus (Pontoppidan, 1763)
PROTONYM:
Scolopax Falcinellus
Pontoppidan, 1763. Den Danske Atlas eller Konge-Riget Dannemark (etc.) 1, p.623.
TYPE LOCALITY:
No locality = Siaelandia ex Orn. Boreal., p. 49.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2024
Definitions
- CALIDRIS
- calidris
- falcinellus
- Falcinellus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
SUBSPECIES
Calidris falcinellus sibirica Scientific name definitions
Distribution
NE Siberia (Taymyr, and R Lena E to R Kolyma); winters from NE India through SE Asia, Philippines and Indonesia to Australia.
Calidris falcinellus sibirica (Dresser, 1876)
PROTONYM:
Limicola sibirica
Dresser, 1876. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Part 3,, p. 674.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Siberia and China.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2024
Definitions
- CALIDRIS
- calidris
- falcinellus
- Falcinellus
- sibirica / sibiricum / sibiricus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Broad-billed Sandpiper
