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 alba Scopoli, 1786

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Platalea*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Afrikaanse lepelaar sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

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

French: spatule d'Afrique sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

German: Afrikanischer Löffler

Literature

basis of record	Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.

Genbank

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Platalea alba Scopoli, 1786. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212707

Drs. Cees Roselaar. Platalea alba Scopoli, 1786. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/bb9e86a4-c5a8-40ea-9fe3-6d33416a4d16

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Occurrence

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Environment

not marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212707
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:96671

Last modified

2011-04-08 by Drs. Cees Roselaar & by Peter Adriaens

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