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Platalea ajaja (roseate spoonbill)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Threskiornithidae

Taxonomy
Platalea ajaja was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Ajaja.

It was recombined as Ajaja ajaja by Hay (1930) and Woolfenden (1959); it was recombined as Ajaia ajaja by Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Wetmore (1956) and Emslie (1995).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Platalea ajaja Linnaeus p. 140
1760Platea rosea Brisson
1930Ajaja ajaja Hay p. 298
1940Ajaia ajaja Wetmore p. 18
1942Ajaia ajaja Miller and DeMay p. 81
1956Ajaia ajaja Wetmore p. 23
1959Ajaja ajaja Woolfenden
1991Ajaja rosea Marshall and Sempere
1995Ajaia ajaja Emslie
2014Platalea ajaja del Hoyo et al.
2017Platalea ajaja Clements et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
orderTheropoda
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Aequornithes
—Feraequornithes
superorderPelecanimorphaeHuxley 1867
orderPelecaniformesSharpe 1891
familyThreskiornithidaeRichmond 1917
genusPlatalea
speciesajaja

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.

Platalea ajaja Linnaeus 1758 [roseate spoonbill]
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Invalid names: Platea rosea Brisson 1760 [synonym]
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: carnivoref
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 17:09:47
Modified: 2009-01-03 19:09:47
Source: f = family, o = order
References: Terborgh et al. 1990, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Ajaia ajaja (20636)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Peru Ajaia ajaja (71346)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Ajaia ajaja (190077)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Venezuela Ajaja ajaja (197931 197932)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Bolivia (Chuquisaca) Ajaja rosea (70705)