Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea Scientific name definitions
- EN Endangered
- Names (24)
- Monotypic
Andrew Elliott, Ernest Garcia, and Peter F. D. Boesman
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated July 24, 2014
Text last updated July 24, 2014
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Bulgarian | Сив щъркел |
| Catalan | tàntal blanc |
| Czech | nesyt bílý |
| Dutch | Maleise Nimmerzat |
| English | Milky Stork |
| English (United States) | Milky Stork |
| Finnish | sundaniibishaikara |
| French | Tantale blanc |
| French (France) | Tantale blanc |
| German | Milchstorch |
| Indonesian | Bangau bluwok |
| Japanese | シロトキコウ |
| Norwegian | malaystork |
| Polish | dławigad malajski |
| Russian | Серый клювач |
| Serbian | Crvenolika roda |
| Slovak | myktéria alabastrová |
| Slovenian | Beli nesit |
| Spanish | Tántalo Malayo |
| Spanish (Spain) | Tántalo malayo |
| Swedish | indonesisk ibisstork |
| Thai | นกกระสาปากเหลือง |
| Turkish | Akça Leylek |
| Ukrainian | Лелека-тантал білий |
Mycteria cinerea (Raffles, 1822)
PROTONYM:
Tantalus cinereus
Raffles, 1822. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1), 13, p.327.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Sumatra.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- MYCTERIA
- mycteria
- cinerea
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: 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)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Milky Stork
