RAMS - Ardeidae Vigors, 1825

RAMS taxon details

Ardeidae Vigors, 1825

AphiaID

148747 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148747)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Ciconiiformes

Direct children (8)

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Genus Ardea Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Bubulcus Bonaparte, 1855
Genus Butorides Blyth, 1852
Genus Egretta Brisson, 1760
Genus Ixobrychus Billberg, 1828
Genus Mesophoyx Sharpe, 1894
Genus Nycticorax T. Forster, 1817
Genus Nycticorax Moehring, 1758 accepted as Nycticorax T. Forster, 1817 (unaccepted > unavailable name, published in a rejected work)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

RAMS (2025). Ardeidae Vigors, 1825. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148747 on 2026-08-31

Regional species database citation

De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Ardeidae Vigors, 1825. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148747 on 2026-08-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-03-29 08:12:19Z

created

Claus, Simon

2017-04-19 10:18:27Z

checked

Tasker, Mark

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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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ardeidae)
To Genbank
To ITIS

The Register of Antarctic Marine Species

RAMS taxon details

Ardeidae Vigors, 1825