Batis

See also: batis, batís, and bâtis

Translingual[edit]

Coined by German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1833.^[1] Apparently from Ancient Greek βατίς (batís), an unidentified worm- or grub-eating bird mentioned by Aristotle in History of Animals.^[2]^[3]

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A taxonomic genus within the family Platysteiridae – sparrow-like birds of sub-Saharan Africa.
A taxonomic genus within the family Bataceae – salt-tolerant plants native to warm-temperate-to-tropical America and tropical Australasia; pickleweed.

(genus in Platysteiridae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Passeriformes – order; Passeri - suborder; Corvida - parvorder; Corvoidea - superfamily; Platysteiridae - family
(genus in Bataceae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, malvids - clades; Brassicales - order; Bataceae - family

(genus in Platysteiridae): For species see Batis (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
(genus in Bataceae): Batis maritima (turtleweed) - type species; Batis argillicola - other species

^ Friedrich Boie (1833) “Fernere Vemertungen über Classification der Vögel”, in Isis von Oken (in German), volume 26, page (column 880)
^ Aristotle (c. 350 BC) Των περί τα ζώα ιστοριών [History of Animals]‎^[1] (in Ancient Greek), volume 8, part 3
^ James A. Jobling, editor (n.d.), “Batis”, in Birds of the World‎^[2], Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, archived from the original on 2022-01-18