White-crested tiger heron | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Pelecaniformes |
Family: | Ardeidae |
Subfamily: | Tigriornithinae |
Genus: | Tigriornis Sharpe, 1895 |
Species: | T. leucolopha
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Binomial name | |
Tigriornis leucolopha (Jardine, 1846)
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Synonyms | |
Tigriornis leucolophus (Jardine, 1846) [orthographic error] |
The white-crested tiger heron (Tigriornis leucolopha), also known as the white-crested bittern, is a species of heron in the family Ardeidae. It is in the monotypic genus Tigriornis. It is widely distributed across the African tropical rainforest.