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 Threskiornithoidea > Family Threskiornithidae > Genus Platalea

Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Platalea*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: çafka sqeplugë; skjepluga 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: Бяла лопатарка sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Dutch: lepelaar 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: Eurasian spoonbill; spoonbill 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.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: spatule blanche sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

German: Löffelreiher; Löffler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Ευρασιατική Χουλιαρομύτα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: כפן אבי-כף sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: spatola; spatola bianca sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Lithuanian: girnovė sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

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

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

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

Russian: колпица; Косарь; обыкновенная колпица sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Scottish Gaelic: leitheadach sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: žličarka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

Turkish: kasikci; kaşıkçı sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Колпиця; Косар; Косар блідо-рожевий; Косаря блідо-рожевого sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: llwybig

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
basis of record	BODC. (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. BODC. (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.