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Nycticorax olsoni  Bourne, Ashmole & Simmons, 2003
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1244836

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Ascension Night Heron [English]
  
    Martinete de Ascensión [Spanish]
  
    goraz-de-ascensão [Portuguese]
  
    Bihoreau de l'Ascension [French]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAves  – Birds, oiseaux  
                         OrderPelecaniformes  – Pelicans, pélicans, Ibises, ibis, Herons, hérons  
                            FamilyArdeidae Leach, 1820 – Bitterns, Egrets, Herons  
                               GenusNycticorax T. Forster, 1817 – Night-Herons  
                                  SpeciesNycticorax olsoni Bourne, Ashmole & Simmons, 2003 – Ascension Night Heron, Martinete de Ascensión, goraz-de-ascensão, Bihoreau de l'Ascension  
       

 References
       
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  Source: IOC World Bird List (version 15.1), website (version 15.1)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Gill, F., D. Donsker, and P. Rasmussen, eds. 2025. IOC World Bird List (v 15.1). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org [Accessed 28 Feb 2025]   
  Reference for: Nycticorax olsoni, Ascension Night Heron [English]   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bourne, W. R. P., N. P. Ashmole, K. E. L. Simmons  
  Publication Date: 2003   
  Article/Chapter Title: A New Subfossile Night Heron and a New Genus for the Extinct Rail from Ascension Island, Central Tropical Atlantic Ocean   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Ardea, vol. 91, no. 1   
  Page(s): 45-51   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0373-2266   
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  Reference for: original description   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Africa  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Extinct  
 

 

    

 
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