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African oystercatcher

African oystercatcher
African oystercatcher in Betty's Bay
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Haematopodidae
Genus: Haematopus
Species:
H. moquini
Binomial name
Haematopus moquini
Bonaparte, 1856
African oystercatcher Population and Breeding Range. Orange = Breeding Range, Pale Orange = Population Range.
Synonyms

Metanibyx africana ?
Haematopus niger Moquin, 1820[2]
Ostralega capensis Lichtenstein, 1823[3]
Haematopus capensis Gray, 1847[4]
Melanibyx moquini Reichenbach, 1851[5]
Haematopus unicolor Lichtenstein, 1854[6]
Melanibyx capensis Heine, 1890[7]
Haematopus ostralegus moquini Peters, 1934[8]

The African oystercatcher or African black oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini) is a large charismatic wader resident to the mainland coasts and offshore islands of southern Africa. This near-threatened oystercatcher has a population of over 6,000 adults, which breed between November and April.[9] The scientific name moquini commemorates the French naturalist Alfred Moquin-Tandon who discovered and named this species before Bonaparte.[10]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Haematopus moquini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22693627A118385157. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22693627A118385157.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Parzudaki, Émile (1856). Catalogue des oiseaux d'Europe offerts, en 1856, aux ornithologistes. Paris: E. Parzudaki.
  3. ^ Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoologischer Museums hiesiger Königl.Universität...nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren,Vögeln,Amphibien und Fischen...,p.73.
  4. ^ The Genera of Birds, 1844-49, Pt.42, Haematopodinae (Dec.), no.2. bound vol.3,p. 547.
  5. ^ Die vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Sumpfvögel:Aves Grallatores. (= Novitiae ad Synopsin Avium...II.Grallatories (III Rasores) No.: V, pl.168, figs.1042-43.
  6. ^ Nomenclator avium Musei Zoologici Berolinensis.Namenverzeichniss,p.93. (Kaffernland). Not Haematopus unicolor Wagler,1832.
  7. ^ Nomenclator Musei Heineani Ornithologici,p.337.
  8. ^ Checklist of Birds of the World, 2, p.233.
  9. ^ Hockey, P. A. R. (2005). Roberts birds of southern Africa. Cape Town: Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund.
  10. ^ Parzudaki, Émile (1856). Catalogue des oiseaux d'Europe offerts, en 1856, aux ornithologistes. Paris: E. Parzudaki.
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