Pied Heron / Egretta picata
WBN 
Pied Heron
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ardea (Herodias) picata Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt13 no.147 p.62
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae / Egretta
Taxonomy Code: pieher2
Type Locality: Port Essington, Northern Territory.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1845
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).
picata
L. picatus bedaubed with tar, pied < pix, picis pitch (cf. L. pica magpie (i.e. black and white)).
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)
