Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Here the details of the Snowy Egret named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ardea Thula SaggioStoriaNat.Chile p.235
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae / Egretta
Taxonomy Code: snoegr
Type Locality: Chile.
Author: Molina
Publish Year: 1782
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
EGRETTA
(Ardeidae; † Little Egret E. garzetta) French Aigrette egret < dim. Provençal Aigron heron; "EGRETTA GARZETTA? The Egret?" (T. Forster 1817); "Egretta T. Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Bds., 1817, p. 59. Type, by monotypy, Ardea garzetta Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 110).
Var. Egetta.
Synon. Demigretta, Dichromanassa, Erodius, Florida, Garzetta, Glaucerodius, Hemiegretta, Hemigarzetta, Herodias, Hydranassa, Lepterodas, Leucophoyx, Melanophoyx, Notophoyx.
egretta
French Aigrette egret < dim. Provençal Aigron heron.
● ex “Guiratinga” of Ray 1713, “Grande Aigrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925, “Grande Aigrette” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Great Egret” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (subsp. Ardea alba).
thula
Araucano name Thula for the Black-necked Swan Sthenelides melancoryphus, but given to the Snowy Egret in error by Molina 1782: “Ardea Thula, nome, che viene dalla lingua Chilese” (Egretta).
SUBSPECIES
Snowy Egret (thula)
SCI Name: Egretta thula thula
thula
Araucano name Thula for the Black-necked Swan Sthenelides melancoryphus, but given to the Snowy Egret in error by Molina 1782: “Ardea Thula, nome, che viene dalla lingua Chilese” (Egretta).
Snowy Egret (brewsteri)
SCI Name: Egretta thula brewsteri
brewsteri
William Brewster (1851-1919) US ornithologist, collector, field naturalist, founder member of AOU, President of first Audubon Society 1896 (subsp. Egretta thula, subsp. Empidonax traillii, syn. Megascops kennicottii, subsp. Melanerpes uropygialis, subsp. Psittacara holochlorus, subsp. Saltator olivascens, subsp. Setophaga petechia, Siphonorhis, Spinus pinus x Acanthis flammea, subsp. Sula leucogaster, syn. Tympanuchus cupido, subsp. Vireo gilvus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: 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)