White-bellied seedsnipe
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Thinocoridae |
| Genus: | Attagis |
| Species: | A. malouinus
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| Attagis malouinus (Boddaert, 1783)
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The white-bellied seedsnipe (Attagis malouinus) is a species of bird in the Thinocoridae family. 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
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Attagis malouinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1772). "Le caille des Iles Malouines". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. Volume 4. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 281–282.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ 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. Vol. Volume 3. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 222.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ 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.
- ^ Saint-Hilaire, Isidore Geoffroy; Lesson, René (1831). Centurie Zoologique (in French). pp. 130, 135.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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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