Great Thick-knee / Esacus recurvirostris
Great Thick-knee
SCI Name:
Protonym: OEdicnemus recurvirostris Règne Anim. ed. 2 ed. 2, 1 p.500
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Burhinidae / Esacus
Taxonomy Code: grtkne1
Type Locality: No locality, = Nepal, fide Stuart Baker.
Author: Cuvier
Publish Year: 1829
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
ESACUS
(Burhinidae; Ϯ Great Stone-curlew E. recurvirostris) Gr. αισακος aisakos unidentified bird, latterly associated with the robin (!), a shorebird or cormorant (Gr. myth. Aesacus, prince of Troy and son of Priam, caused the death of the nymph Hesperie, committed suicide to share her days in eternity, and was metamorphosed into a long-necked, long-legged shorebird. Another version of the myth recalls that he married Sterope, was overcome by her premature death and, throwing himself into the sea, was metamorphosed into a cormorant); "III.e Sous-genre. ESACUS. Bec très-comprimé sur les côtés, recourbé vers en haut, de manière que la face supérieure est concave et l'inférieure convexe; obtus à sa pointe; fosses nasales latérales, larges, recouvertes par une membrane tendue; narines longitudinales, percées sur le devant et au bas de cette membrane; tarses longs, réticulés. 5.º ŒDICNÈME A BEC RECOURBÉ; Œdicnemus recurvirostris, Gal. de Paris. ... De l'Inde. ... Observ. Il paraît que ce serait dans ce sous-genre qu'il faudrait placer le charadrius crassirostris de Spix, qui nous est inconnu, et qui vit au Brésil." (Lesson 1831); "Esacus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 7, 1831, p. 547. Type, by monotypy, Oedicnemus recurvirostris Cuvier." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 297).
Var. Aesacus.
Synon. Carvanaca, Pseudops.
recurvirostra / recurvirostris
L. recurvus bent backwards < recurvare to bend; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Jamaica Shoveler” of Latham 1785 (syn. Oxyura jamaicensis).
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)