Greater sand plover
| Greater sand plover | |
|---|---|
| Nominate A. l. leschenaultii in breeding plumage; a vagrant in Northumberland, UK | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Charadriidae |
| Genus: | Anarhynchus |
| Species: | A. leschenaultii |
| Binomial name | |
| Anarhynchus leschenaultii (Lesson, 1826) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Charadrius leschenaultii (protonym) | |
The greater sand plover (Anarhynchus leschenaultii) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is often given as "greater sandplover" or "greater sand-plover", but the official IOC and British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater Sand Plover". The specific leschenaultii commemorates the French botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. Like most other species in the genus Anarhynchus, it was until recently included in the genus Charadrius.