Definition of Genus Erolia

1. Noun. A genus of Scolopacidae.

Exact synonyms: Erolia
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Erolia Minutilla, Least Sandpiper, Stint, Dunlin, Erolia Alpina, Red-backed Sandpiper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Erolia

genus Eretmochelys
genus Erianthus
genus Erica
genus Erigeron
genus Erignathus
genus Erinaceus
genus Eriobotrya
genus Eriocaulon
genus Eriodictyon
genus Eriogonum
genus Eriophorum
genus Eriophyllum
genus Eriosoma
genus Erithacus
genus Erodium
genus Erolia (current term)
genus Eruca
genus Erwinia
genus Eryngium
genus Erysimum
genus Erysiphe
genus Erythrina
genus Erythrocebus
genus Erythronium
genus Erythroxylon
genus Erythroxylum
genus Escherichia
genus Eschrichtius
genus Eschscholtzia
genus Esox

Literary usage of Genus Erolia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"1766 = T. alpina Linn., 1758, the first species. genus Erolia. ... The genus Erolia has been rejected by Gray and nearly all other authors, in some cases on ..."

2. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"2, 1899, 73 (Port Etolin, Alaska). Tringa crassirostris (not of Temminck and Schlegel) BOGDANOW, Consp. Av. Ross., i, 1884, 88. Genus EROLIA Vieillot. ..."

3. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"... to the Malay Archipelago; rare in migration in the interior of the United States except about the southern end of Lake Michigan. genus Erolia VIEILLOT. ..."

4. Monthly Review (1820)
"The new genus Erolia, and its only known species, variegata, having been characterized by Vieillot merely from a dead specimen, are in course defined in a ..."

5. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"... buff or clay color, spotted and blotched with chestnut, chiefly about the larger ends. They average 1.43 x 1.01 (Davie). Genus EROLIA Vieillot. 244. ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1820)
"The new genus Erolia, and its only known species, variegata, having been characterized by Vieillot merely from a dead specimen, are in course defined in a ..."

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