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Ardea Linnaeus 1758
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Scott Bowers cc-by-nc
Ardea is a genus of
birds
in the family
Ardeidae
.
EOL has data for
12 attributes
, including:
habitat includes
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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aquatic
URI:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002030
Definition:
A habitat that is in or on 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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81
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
water temperature
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
Definition:
Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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15.833 degrees celsius
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Ardea Linnaeus 1758.
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Scott Bowers cc-by-nc
Ardea includes
22 children
:
Ardea alba Linnaeus 1758 (Western great egret)
Ardea aurelianensis Milne-Edwards 1871
Ardea brunhuberi von Ammon 1911
Ardea cinerea Linnaeus 1758 (common heron)
Ardea cocoi Linnaeus 1766 (Cocoi Heron)
Ardea effosa von Meyer 1843
Ardea formosa Milne-Edwards 1871
Ardea goliath Cretzschmar 1829 (Goliath Heron)
Ardea herodias Linnaeus 1758 (Great blue heron)
Ardea humbloti Milne-Edwards, Grandidier & A 1885 (Humblot's Heron)
Ardea insignis Hume 1878 (Imperial Heron)
Ardea intermedia Wagler 1829 (Intermediate Egret)
Ardea latipes von Meyer 1843
Ardea lignitum Gibel 1860
Ardea melanocephala Children & Vigors 1826 (Black-headed Heron)
Ardea pacifica Latham 1801 (Pacific heron)
Ardea paloccidentalis Shufeldt 1891
Ardea perplexa Milne-Edwards 1871
Ardea purpurea Linnaeus 1766 (Purple heron)
Ardea sumatrana Raffles 1822 (Great-billed heron)
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