Roseate Spoonbill

SCI Name:  Platalea ajaja
Protonym:  Platalea Ajaja Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.140
Taxonomy:  Pelecaniformes / Threskiornithidae / Platalea
Taxonomy Code:  rosspo1
Type Locality:  'in America australi'' = Rio Sao Francisco, eastern Brazil, ex Marcgrave, designated by Berlepsch, 1908, Novit. Zool., 15, p. 301.
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).

ajaja
Tupí names Ayayá or Ajajá for the Roseate Spoonbill; "73. PLATALEA.  ...  Ajaja.  2. P. corpore sanguineo.  Platea incarnata. Sloan. jam. 2. p. 316.  Platea brasiliensis Ajaja dicta. Marcgr. bras. 204. Raj. av. 102.   β. Tlauhquechul s. Platea mexicana. Hern. mex. 49. Raj. av. 102.  Habitat in America australi." (Linnaeus 1758) (Ajaia).

Ajaia
(Threskiornithidae; syn. Platalea Ϯ Roseate Spoonbill P. ajaja) Tupí names Ayayá or Ajajá for the Roseate Spoonbill (cf. specific name Platalea ajaja Linnaeus, 1758); "Genera et Species typicae.  ...  3. *Ajaia MRCGR. rosea (Ardea — Barr.) R.  Ic. Av. t. 145. ic. 425—426." (Reichenbach 1853); "Ajaia Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852 (1853), p. xvi. Type, by original designation Ajaia rosea Reichenbach = Platalea ajaja Linné." (Peters 1931, I, p. 140).
Var. Ajaja, Agaia.