Broad-billed sandpiper

Broad-billed sandpiper
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Calidris
Species:
C. falcinellus
Binomial name
Calidris falcinellus
(Pontoppidan, 1763)
Synonyms

Limicola falcinellus

The broad-billed sandpiper (Calidris falcinellus) is a small wading bird. The scientific name is from Latin. The specific name falcinella is from falx, falcis, "a sickle.[2] Some research suggests that it should rather go into the genus Philomachus.[3]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2019). "Calidris falcinellus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22693464A155481741. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22693464A155481741.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 157, 227. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. ^ Thomas, Gavin H.; Wills, Matthew A.; Székely, Tamás (2004). "A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 4: 28. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-4-28. PMC 515296. PMID 15329156. Supplementary Material

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