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Egretta garzetta (little egret)
Taxonomy
Ardea garzetta was named by Linnaeus (1766). It is extant.
It was recombined as Egretta garzetta by Mlikovsky (2002), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017) and Pavia et al. (2018).
It was recombined as Egretta garzetta by Mlikovsky (2002), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017) and Pavia et al. (2018).
Subspecies
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1766 | Ardea garzetta Linnaeus |
| 2002 | Egretta garzetta Mlikovsky p. 69 |
| 2014 | Egretta garzetta del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Egretta garzetta Clements et al. |
| 2018 | Egretta garzetta Pavia et al. p. 35 fig. 2H,I |
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Egretta garzetta Linnaeus 1766 [little egret]
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Egretta garzetta dimorpha Hartert 1914 [dimorphic egret]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | Italy | Egretta garzetta (197786) | |
| Holocene | Mauritius | Egretta dimorpha (194025) |