Eurasian Spoonbill / Platalea leucorodia
Eurasian Spoonbill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Platalea Leucorodia Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.139
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Threskiornithidae / Platalea
Taxonomy Code: eurspo1
Type Locality: Europe; restricted to Sweden by Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svecica, ed. 2, p. 57.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PLATALEA
(Threskiornithidae; Ϯ Eurasian Spoonbill P. leucorodia) L. platalea spoonbill; "73. PLATALEA. Rostrum planiusculum: apice dilatato, orbiculato, plano. Pedes tetradactyli, semipalmati." (Linnaeus 1758); "Platalea Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 139. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 67), Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus." (Steinbacher in Peters 1979, I, ed. 2, 266). Linnaeus's Platalea comprised three species (P. Leucorodia, P. Ajaja, P. pygmea).
Var. Platelea, Platalaea, Platea (L. platea spoonbill).
Synon. Ajaia, Leucerodia, Mystrorhamphus, Pelecanus, Platibis, Spatherodia.
platalea
L. platalea spoonbill.
● ex “Pato espátula” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 431 (Spatula).
leucorodia
Gr. λευκερωδιος leukerōdios spoonbill < λευκος leukos white; ερωδιος erōdios heron (cf. λευκοροδιος leukorhodios rose-pink); "73. PLATALEA. ... Leucorodia. 1. P. corpore albo. Anas rostro plano, apice dilatato rotundatoque. Fn. svec. 87. Platea s. Pelecanus. Gesn. av. 666. Jonst. av. . . t. 46. Will. orn. 212. t. 52. Raj. av. 102. Worm. mus. 1. f. 2. t. 11. f. 10. Leucorodias. Aldr. orn. l. 20. c. 13. Platina s. Cochlearia. Olear. mus. 23. t. 13. f. 4. Albardiola. Alb. av. 2. p. 61. t. 66. Habitat in Europa, nidificat in Arboribus. Rostrum & Pedes nigri." (Linnaeus 1758) (Platalea).
SUBSPECIES
Eurasian Spoonbill (leucorodia)
SCI Name: Platalea leucorodia leucorodia
leucorodia
Gr. λευκερωδιος leukerōdios spoonbill < λευκος leukos white; ερωδιος erōdios heron (cf. λευκοροδιος leukorhodios rose-pink); "73. PLATALEA. ... Leucorodia. 1. P. corpore albo. Anas rostro plano, apice dilatato rotundatoque. Fn. svec. 87. Platea s. Pelecanus. Gesn. av. 666. Jonst. av. . . t. 46. Will. orn. 212. t. 52. Raj. av. 102. Worm. mus. 1. f. 2. t. 11. f. 10. Leucorodias. Aldr. orn. l. 20. c. 13. Platina s. Cochlearia. Olear. mus. 23. t. 13. f. 4. Albardiola. Alb. av. 2. p. 61. t. 66. Habitat in Europa, nidificat in Arboribus. Rostrum & Pedes nigri." (Linnaeus 1758) (Platalea).
Eurasian Spoonbill (balsaci)
SCI Name: Platalea leucorodia balsaci
balsaci / balsacii
Prof. Henri Frédéric Jules Victor Heim de Balsac (1899-1979) French zoologist (subsp. Galerida cristata, subsp. Platalea leucorodia, subsp. Rhinoptilus cinctus).
Eurasian Spoonbill (archeri)
SCI Name: Platalea leucorodia archeri
archeri
● Anthony L. Archer (b. 1933) British big-game hunter in Kenya (cf. “collected at Archer’s Post on the Ewaso Ng’iro River, Samburu District” (Cunningham-van Someren 1984)) (syn. Buphagus erythrorhynchus).
● Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer (1882-1964) British explorer, Gov. of British Somaliland 1919-1922, Gov.-Gen. of the Sudan 1924-1926 (syn. Buteo augur, Dessonornis, subsp. Falco tinnunculus, syn. Eremomela icteropygialis griseoflava, Heteromirafra, subsp. Platalea leucorodia, subsp. Scleroptila gutturalis, subsp. Tachymarptis melba).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: 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)