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 gularis (Bosc, 1792)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Egretta*	T. Forster, 1817	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Ardea gularis*	Bosc, 1792	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Westelijke rifreiger sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

English: western reef egret; western reef heron; western reef-egret sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.

French: aigrette à gorge blanche sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Turkish: kıyı balıkçılı

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). Egretta gularis (Bosc, 1792). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212665

Drs. Cees Roselaar. Egretta gularis (Bosc, 1792). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7ef859f7-5741-4d44-8f4d-9998b6d94930

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Occurrence

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Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212665
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:96654

Last modified

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

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