WoRMS taxon details
Egretta tricolor (Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 159117
AphiaID: 159117
| 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: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 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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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: Length: 26" (66 cm); Wingspan: 36" (91 cm) [details] Distribution: Caribbean; North America [details] Reproduction: Breeds from coastal Maryland, Louisiana, and northern Mexico, south through the West Indies and Central America to Brazil and Ecuador. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159117 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Egretta tricolor (Müller, 1776). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159117 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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