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Ardea herodias herodias
Linnaeus, 1758
- great blue heron
(bird)
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Ardea herodias (Species) - great blue heron
..Ardea herodias cognata (Subspecies)
..Ardea herodias fannini (Subspecies)
..Ardea herodias occidentalis (Subspecies) - great white heron
..Ardea herodias herodias (Subspecies) - great blue heron
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
C. Linnaeus, 1758
Types
Nominotypical taxon of
:
Ardea herodias
Linnaeus, 1758
Ref:
B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993
: 129.
[implicit]
Synonyms
Junior subjective synonym
:
Ardea herodias wardi
Ridgway, 1882
Ref:
E.C. Dickinson (ed.), 2003
: 87 (footnote 2).
[implicit]
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
great blue heron
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