Marine Species Traits - Ciconia Brisson, 1760

WoRMS taxon details

Ciconia Brisson, 1760

AphiaID

206149 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206149)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Ciconiidae Sundevall, 1836

Synonymised names

Dissoura Cabanis, 1850 · unaccepted

Euxenura Ridgway, 1878 · unaccepted

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Species Ciconia abdimii Lichtenstein, 1823
Species Ciconia ciconia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ciconia episcopus (Boddaert, 1783)
Species Ciconia maguari (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Species Ciconia nigra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ciconia alba accepted as Ciconia ciconia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ciconia americana (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Mycteria americana Linnaeus, 1758
Species Ciconia crumenifera Lesson, 1831 accepted as Leptoptilos crumenifer (Lesson, 1831)
Species Ciconia javanica Horsfield, 1821 accepted as Leptoptilos javanicus (Horsfield, 1821) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Descriptive notes

Description Size: medium to large. Plumage: mainly black and white. Other details: fly with neck fully extended. Highly gregarious.

Description Size: medium to large. Plumage: mainly black and white. Other details: fly with neck fully extended. Highly gregarious. [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2024). Ciconia Brisson, 1760. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206149 on 2024-09-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-08-21 13:28:34Z

created

Depew, Lorna

1998-09-25 09:27:15Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2017-10-02 08:42:01Z

changed

Tasker, Mark

Licensing

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basis of record Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. <em>Academic Press, London.</em> [details]

additional source de Jong, Y.; Verbeek, M.; Michelsen, V.; Bjørn, P. D. P.; Los, W.; Steeman, F.; Bailly, N.; Basire, C.; Chylarecki, P.; Stloukal, E.; Hagedorn, G.; Wetzel, F.; Glöckler, F.; Kroupa, A.; Korb, G.; Hoffmann, A.; Häuser, C.; Kohlbecker, A.; Müller, A.; Güntsch, A.; Stoev, P.; Penev, L. (2014). Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web. <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 2: e4034., available online at http://www.fauna-eu.org/ [details]

From other sources

Description Size: medium to large. Plumage: mainly black and white. Other details: fly with neck fully extended. Highly gregarious. [details]

Definitions

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