WoRMS taxon details
Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 159114
AphiaID: 159114
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Ciconiiformes (Order) > Ardeidae (Family) > Egretta (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Egretta Brisson, 1760 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details] basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] basis of record: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] basis of record: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p. [details] basis of record: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] basis of record: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [details] basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details] additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: carnivorous feeding on fish, frogs, lizards, snakes, turtles, and crustaceans such as crabs, crayfish and shrimp [details] Dimensions: Length: 24" (61 cm); Wingspan: 40" (102 cm) [details] Distribution: North America [details] Habitat: often lives near saltwater but also frequentsponds, marshes, swamps, lagoons [details] Importance: helps control insect populations [details] Reproduction: Breeds from Massachusetts west to Tennessee and Texas and south throughout the West Indies, and South America to Uruguay and Peru. Winters from the southern United States southward. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159114 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159114 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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