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Platalea alba (African spoonbill)
Taxonomy
Platalea alba was named by Scopoli (1786). It is extant.
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1786 | Platalea alba Scopoli |
| 1820 | Platalea tenuirostris Temminck |
| 1999 | Platalea alba Goodman |
| 2014 | Platalea alba del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Platalea alba Clements et al. |
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Platalea alba Scopoli 1786 [African spoonbill]
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Invalid names: Platalea tenuirostris Temminck 1820 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Terborgh et al. 1990 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Madagascar | Platalea tenuirostris (195021) | |
| Holocene | Madagascar | Platalea alba (195019) |