Chinese Pond-Heron / Ardeola bacchus
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Chinese Pond-Heron
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Protonym: Buphus bacchus Consp.Gen.Av. 2 p.127
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae / Ardeola
Taxonomy Code: chpher1
Type Locality: Malay Peninsula.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1855
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ARDEOLA
(Ardeidae; † Squacco Heron A. ralloides) L. ardeola or ardiola little heron < dim. ardea heron (cf. Late Gr. αρδεολη ardeolē heron); "52. Familie. Reiher, Ardea. ... 103. Gattung. Ardeola.5 266. ralloides. ... 5 Kennzeichen der Gattung: die kurzen Füße" (Boie 1822); "Ardeola Boie, Isis, 1822, col. 559. Type, by monotypy, Ardea ralloides Scopoli." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 107).
Synon. Buphus, Cancrophagus, Erythocnus.
• (syn. Ixobrychus † Least Bittern I. exilis) "46. ARDEA. ... SUBGENUS III. ARDEOLA. ... Smallest of the genus. ... 236. ARDEA EXILIS, Gm. ... Least Bittern, Ardea exilis, Wils. viii. p. 37. pl. 65. fig. 4. ... The smallest of the genus: closely related to A. minuta of Europe, from which it is hardly distinguished but by its inferior size." (Bonaparte 1828); "Ardeola Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. ii. p. 307, 1828 [November 1827]. Type (by monotypy): Ardea exilis Gmelin. Not of Boie, Isis, heft v. col. 559, 1822, May." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 202).
ardeola
L. ardeola or ardiola little heron < dim. ardea heron.
● "Mandibula superior subconica, naribus magnis ovatis, versus basin positis, sulco vero, ut in Ardeis, a naribus ad apicem nullo ... Collum ut in ardeis elongatum" (von Paykull 1805) (see Erodia) (Dromas).
● "BIHOREAU A MANTEAU.—N. ARDEOLA. ... NYCTICORAX EUROPŒUS (Steph.). Ce nom trivial ne pouvait être plus mal choisi pour cette espèce, cosmopolite dans toute la force du terme; car il est peu d'oiseaux qui soient aussi généralement répartis que celui-ci dans toutes les contrées de l'Ancien comme du Nouveau Monde." (Temminck 1840) (syn. Nycticorax nycticorax).
bacchus
L. bacchus wine (i.e. wine-coloured) (Roman myth. Bacchus, son of Jupiter and god of wine).
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)
