White-bellied seedsnipe

The white-bellied seedsnipe (Attagis malouinus) is a species of bird in the Thinocoridae family.

White-bellied seedsnipe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Thinocoridae
Genus: Attagis
Species:
A. malouinus
Binomial name
Attagis malouinus
(Boddaert, 1783)

It is found in southwestern Argentina and Tierra del Fuego.

It is a vagrant to the Falkland Islands.

Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and swamps.

Taxonomy

The white-bellied seedsnipe was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1772, in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected on the Falkland Islands.[2]

The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[3] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name, but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Tetrao malouinus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[4]

The white-bellied seedsnipe is now placed in the genus Attagis that was erected by the French ornithologists Isidore Saint-Hilaire and René Lesson in 1831.[5][6] Attagis was used for a game bird in Ancient Greek texts. It probably referred to the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus).

The specific epithet refers to the Îles Malouines, the French name for the Falkland Islands.[7] The species is monotypic.[6]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Attagis malouinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1772). "Le caille des Iles Malouines". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Volume 4. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 281–282.
  3. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Caille, des Iles Malouines". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Volume 3. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 222.
  4. Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 12, Number 222.
  5. Saint-Hilaire, Isidore Geoffroy; Lesson, René (1831). Centurie Zoologique (in French). pp. 130, 135.
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Grebes, flamingos, buttonquail, plovers, painted-snipes, jacanas, plains-wanderer, seedsnipes". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  7. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 60, 240. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.


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