Humblot’s Heron
Humblot's Heron
Here the details of the Humblot's Heron named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ardea humbloti Hist.Nat.Madagascar.Ois. 1 p.546
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae / Ardea
Taxonomy Code: humher1
Type Locality: eastern Madagascar.
Author: Milne-Edwards & Grandidier
Publish Year: 1885
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
ARDEA
(Ardeidae; Ϯ Grey Heron A. cinerea) L. ardea heron. In Roman myth. the town of Ardea, capital of the Rutuli, was razed to the ground, and from the ashes rose a pale, lean bird, shaking the cinders from its wings and uttering mournful cries; "76. ARDEA. Rostrum rectum, acutum, longum, subcompressum, sulco e naribus, versus apicem exaratum. Pedes tetradactyli." (Linnaeus 1758); "Ardea Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 141. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 60), Ardea cinerea Linnaeus." (Payne in Peters, 1979, I, ed. 2, p. 195). Linnaeus's Ardea comprised nineteen species (A. pavonina, A. Virgo, A. canadensis, A. Grus, A. americana, A. Antigone, A. Ciconia, A. nigra, A. Nycticorax, A. cinerea, A. Herodias, A. violacea, A. cærulea, A. striata, A. virescens, A. stellaris, A. alba, A. Ibis, A. æquinoctialis).
Var. Ardaea, Ardeae, Ardua.
Synon. Afrardea, Ardeomega, Audubonia, Casmerodius, Erodius, Herodias, Megerodius, Mesophoyx, Myola, Phoyx, Pyrrherodia, Tonophoyx, Typhon.
humbloti
Henry Joseph Léon Humblot (1852-1914) French Resident of Grande Comore 1889-1896, collector in Madagascar (Ardea, Cinnyris, syn. Circus maillardi macrosceles, syn. Otus mayottensis).
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)