North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Egretta Brisson, 1760

AphiaID

159113 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159113)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Ardeidae Vigors, 1825

Direct children (6)

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Species Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766)
Species Egretta gularis (Bosc, 1792)
Species Egretta thula (Molina, 1782)
Species Egretta tricolor (Müller, 1776)
Species Egretta alba (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2025). Egretta Brisson, 1760. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159113 on 2026-06-03

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Egretta Brisson, 1760. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=159113 on 2026-06-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-27 09:47:05Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2006-09-11 06:44:08Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

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basis of record Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. <em>Academic Press, London.</em> [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Egretta)
To Genbank
To ITIS