Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Aves > Order Ciconiiformes > Family Ardeidae > Genus Nycticorax

Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Ardea Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

NycticoraxMoehring, 1758accepted genus name

Species group names

Ardea nycticorax Linnaeus, 1758 objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Albanian: çafka e natës; çapka e natës 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.
 Bokmål (Norwegian): natthegre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Bulgarian: Нощна чапла sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Danish: nathejre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: kwak 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: black-crowned night heron; black-crowned night-heron; night heron sources: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English-United States: Black-crowned Night Heron; Black-crowned Night-Heron ; Night Heron sources: Charles Hussey;African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement
 Fon (Benin): bihoreau gris sources: Avibase - the world bird database
 German: Nachtreiher sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Greek: Κοινός Νυχτοκόρακας sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Israel (Hebrew): אנפת לילה sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Italian: nitticora sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Lithuanian: naktikovis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian: natthegre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: natthegre sources: Syst. Nat. ed. 10 p. 142
 Norwegian Nynorsk: natthegre sources: Syst. Nat. ed. 10 p. 142
 Nynorsk (Norwegian): natthegre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: ślepowron sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Romanian: stârc de noapte sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Russian: кваква sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Slovenian: kvakač sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Spanish, Castillian: martinete común sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: natthäger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Turkish: gece balikcil; gece balıkçıl; gece balıkçılı sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Ukrainian: жаб'яча чапля; Квак; кваква sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Welsh: crëyr y nos

Literature

basis of record

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

Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983

additional source

Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station.

additional source

Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 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

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

additional source

Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.

additional source

Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p.

additional source

Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p.

additional source

Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

additional source

ITIS database

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (77 nucleotides; 67 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (649 publications)
Barcode of Life (20 barcodes)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Adriaens, P. (2014). Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159123

Drs Cees Roselaar. Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=96640

Image

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, fresh

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159123
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:96640

Last modified

2011-04-27 by Drs Cees Roselaar & by Peter Adriaens

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