kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Chordata >
subphylum: Vertebrata >
infraphylum: Gnathostomata >
parvphylum: Osteichthyes >
megaclass: Tetrapoda >
class: Aves >
order: Pelecaniformes >
family: Threskiornithidae Poche, 1904 >
genus: Bostrychia G. R. Gray, 1847 >
species: Bostrychia hagedash (Latham, 1790) >
Africa