Arenaria

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Arenaria, a Latin word meaning sand-loving (or psammophylic), may refer to :

Genera

• Arenaria (bird), the turnstones, a bird genus of the family Scolopacidae
• Arenaria (plant), the sandworts, a plant genus of the family Caryophyllaceae

Species

• Phengaris alcon arenaria, the Dutch alcon blue, an extinct subspecies of the alcon blue butterfly that was endemic to the Netherlands
• Meloidogyne arenaria thamesi, a synonym for Meloidogyne thamesi, the Thames' root-knot nematode, a plant-pathogenic nematode species

See also

• Arenarium
• Arenarius (disambiguation)