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Egretta Forster & T 1817
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Scott Bowers cc-by-nc
Egretta is a genus of
birds
in the family
Ardeidae
.
EOL has data for
5 attributes
, including:
habitat includes
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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marsh
URI:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000035
Definition:
A wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water.
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number of public records in bold
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
Definition:
number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
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54
water depth
URI:
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
Definition:
The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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0 m
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Egretta Forster & T 1817.
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Scott Bowers cc-by-nc
Egretta includes
14 children
:
Egretta ardesiaca (Wagler 1827) (Black Heron)
Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus 1758) (Little blue heron)
Egretta dimorpha Hartert 1914 (Dimorphic Egret)
Egretta eulophotes (Swinhoe 1860) (Chinese Egret)
Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus 1766) (Little egret)
Egretta gularis (Bosc 1792) (Western Reef-Heron)
Egretta novaehollandiae (Latham 1790) (White-faced heron)
Egretta picata (Gould 1845) (Pied Heron)
Egretta rufescens (Gmelin & JF 1789) (Reddish Egret)
Egretta sacra (Gmelin & JF 1789) (Pacific reef egret)
Egretta subfluvia Becker 1985
Egretta thula (Molina 1782) (Snowy egret)
Egretta tricolor (Müller & Pls 1776) (Louisiana Heron)
Egretta vinaceigula (Sharpe 1895) (Slaty Egret)
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