Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Passerae > Superorder Ciconiimorphae > Order Ciconiiformes > Suborder Ciconii > Superfamily Ardeoidea > Family Ardeidae > Genus Egretta

Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Egretta*	T. Forster, 1817	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Ardea garzetta*	Linnaeus, 1766	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: çafka e bardhë e vogël; çajma e bardhë e vogël; çapka e bardhë e vogël; çapkëbardha e vogël; gata e bardhë e vogël; gatëza e bardhë e vogël; gelca e bardhë e vogël sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Bulgarian: Малка бяла чапла sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: silkehejre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: kleine zilverreiger sources: Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp.

English: little egret sources: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.

French: aigrette garzette sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: Seidenreiher sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Κοινός Λευκοτσικνιάς sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: לבנית קטנה sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: garzetta sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: コサギ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Lithuanian: mažasis baltasis garnys sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: silkehegre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: silkehegre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: silkehegre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: czapla nadobna sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Romanian: egreta mică sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: малая белая цапля sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: mala bela čaplja sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: garceta común sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: silkeshäger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: kucuk ak balikcil; küçük ak balıkçıl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Мала біла чапля; Чепура мала sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: crëyr bach

Literature

basis of record	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Peterson, R.T.; Peterson, V.M. (2002). A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.
additional source	Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p.
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
additional source	Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.