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Rodrigues Night Heron

Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards 1873)

Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards 1873)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from IOC World Bird List
Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards 1873)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1, EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1, and GBIF national node type records UK
Nycticorax megacephalus
Species recognized by xeno canto America
Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards 1873)
Species recognized by IUCN and GBIF data coverage

Common Names

English

Rodrigues Night Heron preferred
Recognized by xeno canto America

Curated hierarchies for Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards 1873)

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Reptilia
Diapsida
Archosauromorpha
Archosauria
Dinosauria
Saurischia
Theropoda
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria
Maniraptoriformes
Maniraptora
Aves
Ornithurae
Neornithes
Neognathae
Neoaves
waterbirds
Pelecaniformes
Ardeidae
Nycticorax Forster & T 1817
Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards 1873) (this page)
Nycticorax caledonicus (Gmelin & JF 1789)
Nycticorax duboisi (Rothschild 1907)
Nycticorax fidens Brodkorb 1963
Nycticorax kalavikai Steadman et al. 2000
Nycticorax mauritianus (Newton, E & Gadow 1893)
Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus 1758)
Nycticorax olsoni Bourne, Ashmole & Simmons 2003

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Reptilia
Diapsida
Archosauromorpha
Archosauria
Dinosauria
Saurischia
Theropoda
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria
Maniraptoriformes
Maniraptora
Paraves
Aves
Ornithurae
Neornithes
Neognathae
Neoaves
waterbirds
Pelecaniformes
Ardeidae
Nycticorax Forster & T 1817
Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards 1873) (this page)
Nycticorax caledonicus (Gmelin & JF 1789)
Nycticorax duboisi (Rothschild 1907)
Nycticorax mauritianus (Newton, E & Gadow 1893)
Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus 1758)
Nycticorax olsoni Bourne, Ashmole & Simmons 2003

IUCN

Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Pelecaniformes
Ardeidae
Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards 1873) (this page)
Agamia agami (Gmelin 1789)
Ardea alba Linnaeus 1758
Ardea brachyrhyncha (Brehm 1854)
Ardea cinerea Linnaeus 1758
Ardea cocoi Linnaeus 1766
Ardea goliath Cretzschmar 1827
Ardea herodias Linnaeus 1758
Ardea humbloti Milne-Edwards & Grandidier 1885
Ardea insignis Hume 1878
Ardea intermedia Wagler 1829
Ardea melanocephala Vigors & Children 1826
Ardea occidentalis Audubon 1835
Ardea pacifica Latham 1801
Ardea plumifera (Gould 1848)
Ardea purpurea Linnaeus 1766
Ardea sumatrana Raffles 1822
Ardeola bacchus (Bonaparte 1855)
Ardeola grayii (Sykes 1832)
Ardeola idae (Hartlaub 1860)
Ardeola ralloides (Scopoli 1769)
Ardeola rufiventris (Sundevall 1851)
Ardeola speciosa (Horsfield 1821)
Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett 1813)
Botaurus pinnatus (Wagler 1829)
Botaurus poiciloptilus (Wagler 1827)
Botaurus stellaris (Linnaeus 1758)
Bubulcus ibis (Linnaeus 1758)
Butorides striata (Linnaeus 1758)
Calherodius leuconotus (Wagler 1827)
Cochlearius cochlearius (Linnaeus 1766)
Egretta ardesiaca (Wagler 1827)
Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus 1758)
Egretta eulophotes (Swinhoe 1860)
Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus 1766)
Egretta gularis (Bosc 1792)
Egretta novaehollandiae (Latham 1790)
Egretta picata (Gould 1845)
Egretta rufescens (Gmelin 1789)
Egretta sacra (Gmelin 1789)
Egretta thula (Molina 1782)
Egretta tricolor (Müller 1776)
Egretta vinaceigula (Sharpe 1895)
Gorsachius goisagi (Temminck 1835)
Gorsachius melanolophus (Raffles 1822)
Ixobrychus cinnamomeus (Gmelin 1789)
Ixobrychus dubius Matthews 1912
Ixobrychus eurhythmus (Swinhoe 1873)
Ixobrychus exilis (Gmelin 1789)
Ixobrychus flavicollis (Latham 1790)
Ixobrychus involucris (Vieillot 1823)
Ixobrychus minutus (Linnaeus 1766)
Ixobrychus novaezelandiae (Potts 1871)
Ixobrychus sinensis (Gmelin 1789)
Ixobrychus sturmii (Wagler 1827)
Nyctanassa carcinocatactes Olson & Wingate 2006
Nyctanassa violacea (Linnaeus 1758)
Nycticorax caledonicus (Gmelin 1789)
Nycticorax duboisi Rothschild 1907
Nycticorax mauritianus (Newton & Gadow 1893)
Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus 1758)
Oroanassa magnifica (Ogilvie Grant 1899)
Pilherodius pileatus (Boddaert 1783)
Syrigma sibilatrix (Temminck 1824)
Tigriornis leucolopha (Jardine 1846)
Tigrisoma fasciatum (Such 1825)
Tigrisoma lineatum (Boddaert 1783)
Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson 1834
Zebrilus undulatus (Gmelin 1789)
Zonerodius heliosylus (Lesson 1828)
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