The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Pyrrherodia
(Ardeidae; syn. Ardea † Purple Heron A. purpurea) Gr. πυρρος purrhos red (but here meaning purple) < πυρ pur, πυρος puros fire; ερωδιος erōdios heron; "Subgen. Pyrrherodia, Nob. (356) 2. Ardea purpurea, L." (Finsch & Hartlaub 1870); "Pyrrherodia Finsch and Hartlaub, Vög. Ost-Afr., 1870, p. 676. Type, by monotypy, Ardea purpurea Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 101).
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