Black Heron / Egretta ardesiaca
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Black Heron
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ardea ardesiaca Syst.Av. Ardea [p.181] sp.20
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae / Egretta
Taxonomy Code: blaher1
Type Locality: Senegambia.
Author: Wagler
Publish Year: 1827
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
EGRETTA
(Ardeidae; † Little Egret E. garzetta) French Aigrette egret < dim. Provençal Aigron heron; "EGRETTA GARZETTA? The Egret?" (T. Forster 1817); "Egretta T. Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Bds., 1817, p. 59. Type, by monotypy, Ardea garzetta Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 110).
Var. Egetta.
Synon. Demigretta, Dichromanassa, Erodius, Florida, Garzetta, Glaucerodius, Hemiegretta, Hemigarzetta, Herodias, Hydranassa, Lepterodas, Leucophoyx, Melanophoyx, Notophoyx.
egretta
French Aigrette egret < dim. Provençal Aigron heron.
● ex “Guiratinga” of Ray 1713, “Grande Aigrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925, “Grande Aigrette” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Great Egret” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (subsp. Ardea alba).
ardesiaca / ardesiacea / ardesiacus
Mod. L. ardesiacus slate-coloured, slaty < French ardoisé slate-grey.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
