Was heißt arenaria?
Was heißt arenaria?
- In ornithology:
- A disused specific name of several shore-birds or limicoline species of Scolopacidæ, as the redshank, Totanus calidris.
- A generic name of the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres.
- A generic name of the sanderling, Calidris arenaria.
- The specific name of the same. Linnœus, 1758, and most modern writers.
- A genus of bivalve mollusks, of the family Tellinidœ: synonymous with Scrobicularia.
- In botany, an unimportant genus of low herbs, of the natural order Caryophyllaceœ, allied to the chickweeds; the sandworts.