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Ardea alba Christidis & Boles, 1994

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Aves
order
Pelecaniformes
family
Ardeidae
genus
Ardea
species
Ardea alba

Name

Homonyms
Ardea alba Christidis & Boles, 1994
Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758
Ardea alba Sacc, 2005
Common names
Airone bianco maggiore in Italian
Egretthegre in Norwegian
Garceta grande in Spanish
Grande Aigrette in French
Great Egret in English
Great Egret in English
Great Egret in English
Great/Intermediate Egret in English
Grootwitreier in Afrikaans
Grote Zilverreiger in Dutch
Silberreiher in German
Sølvhejre in Danish
agró blanc in Catalan–Valencian
baltais gārnis in Latvian
beluša veľká in Slovak
czapla biała in Polish
didysis baltasis garnys in Lithuanian
garza real in Spanish
garça-branca in Portuguese
great egret in English
hõbehaigur in Estonian
jalohaikara in Finnish
nagy kócsag in Hungarian
velika bela čaplja in Slovenian
volavka bílá in Czech
ägretthäger in Swedish
Большая белая цапля in Russian
นกยางโทนใหญ่ in Thai
កុកគ្រោងធំ in Central Khmer
កុកគ្រោងធំ in Central Khmer
កុកគ្រោងធំ in Central Khmer
ダイサギ in Japanese
大白鷺 in Chinese
西大白鹭 in Chinese

Bibliographic References

  1. Larsson, L., Ekström, G., Larsson, E. & Gandemo, M. (1900-01-01 00:00:00) Birds of the World, 2:a uppl.
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