Slender-billed Curlew / Numenius tenuirostris
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Slender-billed Curlew
SCI Name:
Protonym: Numenius tenuirostris Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 8 p.302
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Scolopacidae / Numenius
Taxonomy Code: slbcur
Type Locality: Egypt.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1817
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
NUMENIUS
(Scolopacidae; Ϯ Eurasian Curlew N. arquata) Gr. νουμηνιος noumēnios bird mentioned by Hesychius, traditionally associated with the curlew by reason of its crescent-shaped bill < νουμηνια noumēnia new moon < νεος neos new; μηνη mēnē, μηνης mēnēs moon (cf. L. numen, numinis nodding with the head < nuere to nod, to consent); "Numenius. Genus 78. ... Genus Numenii ... Rostrum deorsum arcuatum ... **1. LE COURLY. ... NUMENIUS" (Brisson 1760): based on "Numenius" and "Arquata" of Gessner 1555, and other authors, and Scolopax Arquata Linnaeus, 1758; "Numenius Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p. 48; 5, p. 311. Type, by tautonymy, Numenius Brisson = Scolopax arquata Linné." (Peters 1934, II, 260); "Numenius Brisson, Orn., 1, p. 48, 5, p. 311, 1760—type, by tautonymy, "Numenius" Brisson = Scolopax torquata [sic] Linnaeus." (Hellmayr & Conover, 1948, XIII, 90).
Var. Neomenius, Numerius, Numineus, Neumenius.
Synon. Arquata, Cracticornis, Mesoscolopax, Micronumenius, Palnumenius, Phaeopus, Zarapita.
tenuirostra / tenuirostre / tenuirostris
L. tenuis, tenue slender; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
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)
