Editing Calidris (section)

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Calidris'' was introduced in 1804 by the German naturalist [[Blasius Merrem]] with the [[red knot]] as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Merrem | first=Blasius | author-link=Blasius Merrem | date=8 June 1804 | title=Naturgeschichte | language=German | journal=Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung | volume=168 | at=Col. 542 | url=https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb10502034/canvas/453/view }} Published anonymously.</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=280 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483093 }}</ref>  The genus name is from [[Ancient Greek]] ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by [[Aristotle]] for some grey-coloured waterside birds.<ref name=job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n84 84]}}</ref>

The genus contain 24 species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Sandpipers, snipes, coursers | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sandpipers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=26 June 2019 }}</ref>

* [[Great knot]], ''Calidris tenuirostris''
* [[Red knot]], ''Calidris canutus''
* [[Surfbird]], ''Calidris virgata''
* [[Ruff (bird)|Ruff]], ''Calidris pugnax''
* [[Broad-billed sandpiper]], ''Calidris falcinellus''
* [[Sharp-tailed sandpiper]], ''Calidris acuminata''
* [[Stilt sandpiper]], ''Calidris himantopus''
* [[Curlew sandpiper]], ''Calidris ferruginea''
* [[Temminck's stint]], ''Calidris temminckii''
* [[Long-toed stint]], ''Calidris subminuta''
* [[Spoon-billed sandpiper]], ''Calidris pygmaea''
* [[Red-necked stint]], ''Calidris ruficollis''
* [[Sanderling]], ''Calidris alba''
* [[Dunlin]], ''Calidris alpina''
* [[Rock sandpiper]], ''Calidris ptilocnemis''
* [[Purple sandpiper]], ''Calidris maritima''
* [[Baird's sandpiper]], ''Calidris bairdii''
* [[Little stint]], ''Calidris minuta''
* [[Least sandpiper]], ''Calidris minutilla''
* [[White-rumped sandpiper]], ''Calidris fuscicollis''
* [[Buff-breasted sandpiper]], ''Calidris subruficollis''
* [[Pectoral sandpiper]], ''Calidris melanotos''
* [[Semipalmated sandpiper]], ''Calidris pusilla''
* [[Western sandpiper]], ''Calidris mauri''