American Oystercatcher

SCI Name:  Haematopus palliatus
Protonym:  Hamatopus palliatus Man.Orn.[Temminck].ed.2 ed.2, 2 p.532
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Haematopodidae / Haematopus
Taxonomy Code:  ameoys
Type Locality:  South America, restricted to Venezuela by Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. South Am., 1912, p. 37.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1820
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HAEMATOPUS
(Haematopodidae; Ϯ Eurasian Oystercatcher H. ostralegus) L. haematopus, haematopodis  blood-foot  < Gr. αἱμα haima, αἱματος haimatos  blood; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; "81. HÆMATOPUS.  Rostrum compressum: apice cuneo æquali.  Pedes tridactyli, fissi." (Linnaeus 1758): ex "Haematopus" of Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Linnaeus 1745, and Linnaeus 1746, and "Sea-Pie" of Willughby 1676, Ray 1713, and Albin 1731-1738; "Hæmatopus Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 152. Type, by monotypy, Haematopus ostralegus Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 231). Linnaeus's Haematopus comprised a single species.
Var. Himatopus, Hoematopus, Haemantopus, Haemotopus.
Synon. Melanibyx, Ostralega, Ostralegus, Palostralegus, Prohaematopus.

haematopus
L. haematopus, haematopodis  blood-foot  < Gr. αἱμα haima, αἱματος haimatos  blood; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.

palliata / palliatus
L. palliatus cloaked, mantled < pallium cloak, mantle.

SUBSPECIES

American Oystercatcher (palliatus)
SCI Name: Haematopus palliatus palliatus
palliata / palliatus
L. palliatus cloaked, mantled < pallium cloak, mantle.

American Oystercatcher (galapagensis)
SCI Name: Haematopus palliatus galapagensis
galapagensis / galapagoensis
Galápagos Is. (Spanish galopegos  tortoises).
● Erroneous TL. Galápagos Is. (= California) (syn. Zonotrichia coronata).