WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species

Ardeidae
AphiaID: 148747

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Ciconiiformes (Order)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Added by Database Management Team

Rank

Family

Parent

Ciconiiformes

Source

basis of record: Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	reigers	[details]
English	herons	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	hegrefamilien	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	hegrefamilien	[details]
Swedish	hägrar	[details]

All child
taxa
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Genus Agamia

» Species Agamia agami (Gmelin, 1789)

Genus Ardea Linnaeus, 1758

» Species Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758
» Species Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758
» Species Ardea cocoi Linnaeus, 1766
» Species Ardea goliath Cretzschmar, 1827
» Species Ardea herodias Linnaeus, 1758
» Species Ardea melanocephala Vigors & Children, 1826
» Species Ardea purpurea Linnaeus, 1766
» Species Ardea ibis Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Bubulcus ibis (Linnaeus, 1758)
» Species Ardea intermedia Wagler, 1827 accepted as Mesophoyx intermedia (Wagler, 1829)
» Species Ardea novaehollandiae Latham, 1790 accepted as Egretta novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790)
» Species Ardea sacra J.F.Gmelin, 1789 accepted as Egretta sacra (Gmelin, 1789)
» Species Ardea striatus Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Butorides striata (Linnaeus, 1758)
» Species Ardea thula Molina, 1782 accepted as Egretta thula (Molina, 1782)

Genus Ardeola Boie, 1822

» Species Ardeola idae (Hartlaub, 1860)
» Species Ardeola ralloides (Scopoli, 1769)

Genus Botaurus Stephens, 1819

» Species Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett, 1813)
» Species Botaurus pinnatus (Wagler, 1829)
» Species Botaurus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Genus Bubulcus

» Species Bubulcus ibis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Genus Butorides Blyth, 1852

» Species Butorides striata (Linnaeus, 1758)

» Subspecies Butorides striata brevipes (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833)

» Species Butorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)

Genus Casmerodius Gloger, 1842

» Species Casmerodius albus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Egretta alba (Linnaeus, 1758)

Genus Cochlearius

» Species Cochlearius cochlearius (Linnaeus, 1766)

Genus Egretta Brisson, 1760

Genus Ixobrychus Billberg, 1828

» Species Ixobrychus exilis (Gmelin, 1789)
» Species Ixobrychus minutus (Linnaeus, 1766)
» Species Ixobrychus novaezelandiae (Potts, 1871)

Genus Mesophoyx Sharpe, 1894

» Species Mesophoyx intermedia (Wagler, 1829)

Genus Nyctanassa Stejneger, 1887

» Species Nyctanassa violacea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Genus Nycticorax Moehring, 1758

» Species Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758)

» Subspecies Nycticorax nycticorax falklandicus Hartert, 1914
» Subspecies Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli (Gmelin, 1789)
» Subspecies Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758)

Genus Tigrisoma

» Species Tigrisoma lineatum (Boddaert, 1783)
» Species Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson, 1834

Links

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LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148747

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2005-03-29 08:12:19Z	created	Claus, Simon

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Citation: WoRMS (2013). Ardeidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148747 on 2013-05-26

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