African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (43)
- Monotypic
Eloïsa Matheu, Josep del Hoyo, David Christie, Guy M. Kirwan, and Ernest Garcia
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated April 24, 2017
Text last updated April 24, 2017
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Skoorsteenveër |
| Arabic | أبو منجل المقدس الأفريقي |
| Asturian | Ibis sagrñu |
| Azerbaijani | Müqəddəs ibis |
| Basque | Ibis sakratua |
| Bulgarian | Африкански свещен ибис |
| Catalan | ibis sagrat africà |
| Chinese | 埃及聖䴉 |
| Chinese (SIM) | 埃及圣鹮 |
| Croatian | sveti ibis |
| Czech | ibis posvátný |
| Danish | Hellig Ibis |
| Dutch | Heilige Ibis |
| English | African Sacred Ibis |
| English (Kenya) | Sacred Ibis |
| English (United States) | African Sacred Ibis |
| French | Ibis sacré |
| French (France) | Ibis sacré |
| Galician | Ibis sagrado |
| German | Pharaonenibis |
| Greek | Ιερή Ίβιδα |
| Hebrew | איביס קדוש |
| Hungarian | Szent íbisz |
| Icelandic | Nílaríbis |
| Italian | Ibis sacro |
| Korean | 검은날개흰따오기 |
| Norwegian | helligibis |
| Persian | اکراس آفریقایی |
| Polish | ibis czczony |
| Portuguese (Angola) | Ibis-sagrado |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Íbis-sagrada |
| Romanian | Ibis sacru |
| Russian | Священный ибис |
| Serbian | Afrički sveti ibis |
| Slovak | ibis posvätný |
| Slovenian | Afriški sveti ibis |
| Spanish | Ibis Sagrado |
| Spanish (Spain) | Ibis sagrado |
| Swedish | helig ibis |
| Thai | นกช้อนหอยขาวแอฟริกา |
| Turkish | Kutsal Aynak |
| Ukrainian | Ібіс священний |
| Zulu | inkankanelunga |
Threskiornis aethiopicus (Latham, 1790)
PROTONYM:
Tantalus aethiopicus
Latham, 1790. Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiæ; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. 2, p.706.
TYPE LOCALITY:
'Aethiopia' = ? Egypt (cf. Bruce, 1790, Travels Source Nile, 5, p. 172, pi. [35]).
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- THRESKIORNIS
- aethiopica / aethiopicus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
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 Sacred Ibis (African)
