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==Etymology and common names== The "Clark" of its common name—and its specific epithet ''clarkii''—honors John Henry Clark, a 19th-century American surveyor who was also a naturalist and collector.<ref>{{cite book |last=Beolens |first=Bo |author2=Michael Watkins |title=Whose Bird? |publisher=Christopher Helm |year=2003 |page=84 |isbn=0-7136-6647-1}}</ref> The genus name ''Aechmophorus'' comes from the [[Ancient Greek]] words αἰχμά (transliterated "aichme"), meaning 'point of a spear',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://morphological_el.enacademic.com/4844/%CE%B1%E1%BC%B0%CF%87%CE%BC%E1%BD%B1 |title=αἰχμά (Greek morphological index - Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες) |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2014 |website=Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias |publisher=Academic |access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref> and [[wikt:-φόρος|φόρος]] ("phoros"), meaning 'bearing'; together translating as 'spear point bearer' and referring to the bird's long, dagger-like beak. In Mexico, it is called '''''achichilique pico naranja''''' (the western grebe is called the ''achichilique pico amarillo'').<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/especies/gran_familia/animales/aves/avesCatalogo.html |title=Catálogo de Autoridades Taxonómicas de las Aves de México |last1=Navarro |first1=S.A. |last2=Gordillo |first2=A. |date=2006 |language=es |website=Base de datos del Sistema Nacional de Información sobre Biodiversidad |publisher=Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM for Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad |access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref> A common name advocated in Spain for this bird is the calque '''''achichilique de Clark'''''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bernis |first1= F. |last2=De Juana |first2=E. |last3=Del Hoyo |first3=J. |last4=Fernández-Cruz |first4=M. |last5=Ferrer |first5=X. |last6=Sáez-Royuela |first6=R. |last7=Sargatal |first7=J. |date=1994 |title=Nombres en castellano de las aves del mundo recomendados por la Sociedad Española de Ornitología (Primera parte: Struthioniformes-Anseriformes |url=https://www.seo.org/wp-content/uploads/tmp/docs/vol_41_1_primero.pdf |journal=Ardeola |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=79–89 |language=es |issn=0570-7358 |access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref>
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