Bubulcus

Genus of birds

Bubulcus

Breeding-plumaged adult of western cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Pelecaniformes
Family:  | Ardeidae
Subfamily:  | Ardeinae
Genus:  | Bubulcus
Bonaparte, 1855
Type species
Ardea ibis

Linnaeus, 1758

Bubulcus is a genus of herons in the family Ardeidae.

The genus Bubulcus was introduced in 1855 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the western cattle egret as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is from Latin and means "cowherd".[3] The genus contains two species:[4]

Image | Name | Common name | Distribution

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| Bubulcus ibis | Western cattle egret | Southern Spain and Portugal, tropical and subtropical Africa and humid tropical and subtropical Asia and tropical and subtropical America
| Bubulcus coromandus | Eastern cattle egret | southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia

Some taxonomic authorities lump both species together, calling them cattle egrets, and making the genus monotypic.[5][6][7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1855). "Tableaux synoptiques de l'ordre des hérons". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 40: 718–733 [722].
2. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 205.
3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 79\. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Ibis, spoonbills, herons, Hamerkop, Shoebill, pelicans". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
5. ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V., Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 188\. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
6. ^ Clements, J.F.; Schulenberg, T.S.; Iliff, M.J.; Billerman, S.M.; Fredericks, T.A.; Gerbracht, J.A.; Lepage, D.; Sullivan, B.L.; Wood, C.L. (2021). "The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2021". Retrieved 20 June 2022.
7. ^ "Species factsheet: Bubulcus ibis". Birdlife International. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

## External links[edit]

* Media related to Bubulcus at Wikimedia Commons
* Data related to Bubulcus at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q947895
* Wikispecies: Bubulcus
* AFD: Bubulcus
* BOLD: 4581
* CoL: 3DQY
* EPPO: 1BUBUG
* Fauna Europaea (new): 75ddeee0-f7a3-4075-94af-1abe9d7031d4
* GBIF: 2480829
* iNaturalist: 5016
* ITIS: 174802
* NBN: NHMSYS0000530215
* NCBI: 110667
* NZOR: d7f60a3e-f290-42f4-9bf8-691df07d8f18
* Plazi: 176A5D5B-B7F3-E31C-0190-47D7A5A1186F
* WoRMS: 159741
* ZooBank: 2C4A73EB-2325-4A0E-BF5D-459522B587AD

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