WoRMS taxon details
Ardea herodias Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 159382
AphiaID: 159382
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Ciconiiformes (Order) > Ardeidae (Family) > Ardea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ardea Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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] additional source: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] additional source: 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] additional source: 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: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [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] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1069 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (96 nucleotides; 33 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: fish, frogs, salamanders, lizards, snakes, shrimps, crabs, crayfish, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many aquatic insects [details] Dimensions: Length: 46" (117 cm); Wingspan: 72" (183 cm) [details] Distribution: North America [details] Habitat: rivers, lake edges, marshes, saltwater shores, and swamps [details] Reproduction: Breeds across Canada from Nova Scotia and Gaspe to southeastern Alaska and south to Florida, Texas, and northern Mexico. Winters along the coastal and inland waters from the northern United States to the West Indies, Central, and northern South America. It is a colonial Breeder. Eggs are laid from mid May to late June. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159382 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Ardea herodias Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159382 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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