Royal Spoonbill / Platalea regia
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Royal Spoonbill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Platalea regia Syn.BirdsAustr. pt4 App. p.7
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Threskiornithidae / Platalea
Taxonomy Code: royspo1
Type Locality: east coast of New South Wales.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1838
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).
regia
L. regius royal < rex, regis king < regere to rule.
● ex Sterna cayana Audubon, 1835 (syn. Thalasseus maximus).
● ex “Veuve de la Côte d’Afrique” of Brisson 1760 (Vidua).
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)
