Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Westelike Kusreier |
| Arabic | بلشون الصخر |
| Asturian | Garcina dimorfa |
| Basque | Uharri-koartzatxoa |
| Bulgarian | Рифова чапла |
| Catalan | martinet dels esculls |
| Croatian | obalna čaplja |
| Czech | volavka přímořská |
| Danish | Revhejre |
| Dutch | Westelijke Rifreiger |
| English | Western Reef-Heron |
| English (Australia) | Western Reef Egret |
| English (India) | Western Reef-Heron (Western Reef-Egret) |
| English (Kenya) | Western Reef Heron |
| English (United Arab Emirates) | Western Reef Heron |
| English (United States) | Western Reef-Heron |
| Finnish | riuttahaikara |
| French | Aigrette à gorge blanche |
| French (France) | Aigrette à gorge blanche |
| Galician | Garzota dos arrecifes |
| German | Küstenreiher |
| Greek | Θαλασσοτσικνιάς |
| Hebrew | לבנית ים-סוף |
| Hungarian | Zátonykócsag |
| Icelandic | Kóralhegri |
| Italian | Airone schistaceo |
| Japanese | アフリカクロサギ |
| Lithuanian | Rifinis garnys |
| Malayalam | തിരമുണ്ടി |
| Marathi | सागरी बगळा |
| Norwegian | strandhegre |
| Persian | اگرت ساحلی |
| Polish | czapla rafowa |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | garça-negra |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Garça-dos-recifes-ocidental |
| Romanian | Egretă de recif |
| Russian | Западная рифовая цапля |
| Serbian | Mala crna čaplja |
| Slovak | volavka pobrežná |
| Slovenian | Obalna čaplja |
| Spanish | Garceta Dimorfa |
| Spanish (Puerto Rico) | Garceta Dimorfa |
| Spanish (Spain) | Garceta dimorfa |
| Swedish | revhäger |
| Turkish | Kıyı Balıkçılı |
| Ukrainian | Чапля рифова |
Egretta gularis (Bosc, 1792)
PROTONYM:
Ardea gularis
Bosc, 1792. ActesSoc.Hist.Nat.Paris 1, p.4 pl.2.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Senegal River.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- EGRETTA
- egretta
- gulare / gularis
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Western Reef-Heron Egretta gularis Scientific name definitions
Josep del Hoyo, Nigel Collar, and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated May 10, 2016
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated May 10, 2016
Originally Appeared in
Revision History
Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Western Reef-Heron Egretta gularis
Authors
Josep del Hoyo, Nigel Collar, and Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
del Hoyo, J., N. Collar, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Western Reef-Heron (Egretta gularis), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.werher.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- May 10, 2016
- Western Reef-egret (HBW) Egretta gularis
Authors
Josep del Hoyo, Nigel Collar, and Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
del Hoyo, J., N. Collar, and G. M. Kirwan (2016). Western Reef-egret (HBW) (Egretta gularis). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
