Welcome Guest

Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret

Egretta [gularis or dimorpha] (= Egretta gularis) (Bosc, LAG 1792)

The western reef heron, also called the western reef egret, is a medium-sized heron found in southern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia. It has a mainly coastal distribution and occurs in several plumage forms: a slaty-grey plumage in which it can only be confused with the rather uncommon dark morph of the Little egret ; a white form which can look very similar to the little egret although the bill tends to be paler and larger and the black form with white throat E. g. gularis of West Africa. There are also differences in size, structure and foraging behaviour. There have been suggestions that the species hybridizes with the Little Egret, and based on this, some authors treat schistacea and gularis as subspecies of Egretta garzetta. Works that consider the Western Reef Heron as a valid species include the nominate gularis and schistacea as subspecies. Source: Wikipedia




(0 votes)
Photo powered by flickr.com.


Classification
Order:
  Pelecaniformes
Family:
  Ardeidae
Genus:
   Egretta
Scientific:
  Egretta gularis

Original description

Citation:
  (Bosc, LAG 1792)

Reference:
   Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1, pt.1 p.4 pl.2

Protonym:
  Ardea gularis

Type locality:
  Senegal River.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/163187#page/38/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  2007348D400F8102

Avibase ID:
  avibase-2007348D

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/2007348D

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 174822

Geographic range:

  • Egretta dimorpha: East African coast and locally inland; Europa Island (southern Mozambique Channel), Aldabra (southwestern Seychelles), and Madagascar
  • Egretta gularis: coastal western Africa to Gulf of Guinea islands and Gabon, and coastal eastern Africa to Red Sea, Persian Gulf and southeastern India
  • Egretta gularis gularis: coastal western Africa to Gulf of Guinea islands and Gabon
  • Egretta gularis schistacea: coastal eastern Africa to Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and southeastern India
Source: Clements checklist
English:
Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret
French:
Aigrette à gorge blanche ou A. dimorphe

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013):
Reef Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014):
Reef Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015):
Reef Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016):
Reef Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017):
Reef Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret ( Egretta [gularis or dimorpha])
Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018):
Western Reef-egret ( Egretta gularis) [version 2]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species (alt)

This taxon is a subspecies of Egretta [garzetta, gularis or dimorpha]

Your sightings

You must be logged in to view your sighting details. To register to myAvibase click here.

Related taxa

Highlight taxa in a checklist (shown in red)

Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.


Afrikaans: Westelike Kusreier
Arabic: الغرنوق الأسود
Bulgarian: Рифова чапла
Catalan: Martinet dels esculls
Catalan (Balears): Agró d'escull
Czech: volavka belolící
Danish: Revhejre
German: Küstenreiher
Maldivian: Bodu Raabondhi
Greek: Μαυροτσικνιάς
English: Dimorphic or Western Reef-Egret, Reef Egret, Reef Heron, Western Reef Heron, Western Reef-egret
Esperanto: Marborda egretardeo
Spanish: Garceta Dimorfa
Estonian: rand-siidhaigur
Basque: Martinet dels esculls
Finnish: riuttahaikara
French: Aigrette à gorge blanche, Aigrette à gorge blanche ou A. dimorphe
Galician: Garzota dos arrecifes
Hebrew: לבנית ים-סוף
Hungarian: Zátonykócsag
Icelandic: Kóralhegri
Italian: Airone schistaceo
Japanese (romaji): afurikakurosagi
Japanese: アフリカクロサギ
Scientific: Ardea gularis, Egretta [gularis or dimorpha], Egretta gularis, Egretta gularis gularis
Lithuanian: Krantinis garnys
Malayalam: തിരമുണ്ടി 
Dutch: Westelijke Rifreiger
Norwegian: Strandhegre
Polish: czapla rafowa
Portuguese: Garça-dos-recifes
Portuguese (Brazil): Garça-negra
Russian: Цапля рифовая
Sinhalese (Transliteration): Batahira Pera Ali-koka
Slovak: volavka pobrežná
Slovenian: obalna čaplja
Serbian: afrička crna čaplja
Swedish: Kusthäger
Turkish: kıyı balıkçılı
Chinese: 黄喉岩鹭
Chinese (Traditional): 黃喉岩鷺

Avibase has been visited 405,475,154 times since 24 June 2003. © Denis Lepage | Privacy policy