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Egretta caerulea (little blue heron)

Osteichthyes - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae

Taxonomy
Ardea caerulea was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Florida caerulea by Wetmore (1931), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Wetmore (1956); it was recombined as Egretta caerulea by del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017), Oswald and Steadman (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Ardea caerulea Linnaeus p. 143
1931Florida caerulea Wetmore p. 16
1940Florida caerulea Wetmore p. 15
1942Florida caerulea Miller and DeMay p. 79
1956Florida caerulea Wetmore p. 20
2014Egretta caerulea del Hoyo et al.
2017Egretta caerulea Clements et al.
2018Egretta caerulea Oswald and Steadman p. 366

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
RankNameAuthor
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Aequornithes
—Feraequornithes
superorderPelecanimorphaeHuxley 1867
orderPelecaniformesSharpe 1891
familyArdeidaeLeach 1820
genusEgrettaForster 1817
speciescaerulea()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Egretta caerulea Linnaeus 1758 [little blue heron]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialf
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: volantf
Diet: piscivoref
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 16:51:50
Modified: 2009-01-03 18:51:50
Source: f = family, o = order
References: Thiollay 1994, Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Florida caerulea (190077)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Peru Egretta caerulea (71346)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Florida caerulea (154771)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Bahamas (New Providence Island) Egretta caerulea (194588)