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Nycticorax nycticorax (black-crowned night heron)
Taxonomy
Ardea nycticorax was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Nycticorax nycticorax by Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Wetmore (1956), Campbell (1976), Olson et al. (1990), Clements et al. (2017), Michailidis et al. (2018).
It was recombined as Nycticorax nycticorax by Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Wetmore (1956), Campbell (1976), Olson et al. (1990), Clements et al. (2017), Michailidis et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Ardea nycticorax Linnaeus p. 142 |
| 1940 | Nycticorax nycticorax Wetmore p. 16 |
| 1942 | Nycticorax nycticorax Miller and DeMay p. 79 |
| 1956 | Nycticorax nycticorax Wetmore p. 20 |
| 1976 | Nycticorax nycticorax Campbell p. 156 |
| 1990 | Nycticorax nycticorax Olson et al. p. 8 |
| 2017 | Nycticorax nycticorax Clements et al. |
| 2018 | Nycticorax nycticorax Michailidis et al. p. 87 fig. 2N |
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Nycticorax nycticorax Linnaeus 1758 [black-crowned night heron]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Thiollay 1994, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Pleistocene | Greece | Nycticorax nycticorax (199938) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Peru | Nycticorax nycticorax (71346) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Florida) | Nycticorax nycticorax (20581 20636) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Ecuador | Nycticorax nycticorax (152599) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Nycticorax nycticorax (154773) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Egypt | Nycticorax nycticorax (208788) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Nycticorax nycticorax (44954) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Bahamas (San Salvador) | Nycticorax nycticorax (190743) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom (England) | Nycticorax nycticorax (125446) |