en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlew_sandpiper
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in 1816, Louis Pierre Vieillot even considered it the type species of that genus.
This mixes up two different genera: Vieillot’s 1816 type-species designation concerned Erolia, not Tringa. The type species of Tringa is the Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus), not the Curlew Sandpiper.
Full reasoning
Standard ornithological nomenclature sources do not treat Curlew Sandpiper as the type species of Tringa.
- A South American Classification Committee proposal summarizing the nomenclature states that Erolia variegata Vieillot is the type species of Erolia, and that this name is synonymous with Tringa ferruginea (Curlew Sandpiper).
- A separate nomenclatural source for Tringa states that the genus’s type species is Tringa ochropus (Green Sandpiper), by tautonymy.
So the article appears to have conflated Erolia with Tringa: Vieillot’s 1816 connection to Curlew Sandpiper was as the type species of Erolia, not of Tringa.
2 sources
- Revise the classification of sandpipers and turnstones (Arenariinae)
"The designation of the type species of the generic name Erolia should be corrected... it should read 'type species, by monotypy, Erolia variegata Vieillot = Tringa ferruginea Pontoppidan.'"
- Green Sandpiper / Tringa ochropus - World Bird Names
"TRINGA ... Type, by tautonymy, Tringa ocrophus Linné..." The page identifies this as Green Sandpiper, Tringa ochropus.