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Sterna forsteri Nuttall, 1834 
AphiaID: 159057

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Sternidae (Family) > Sterna (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Sterna Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.  [details]

basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details]

additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch Forsters stern  [details]
English Forster's tern  [details]
French sterne de Forster  [details]
German Forsterseeschwalbe  [details]
Lithuanian Forsterio žuvėdra  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål prærieterne  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk prærieterne  [details]
Polish rybitwa czarnoucha  [details]
Russian крачка форстера  [details]
Slovenian ameriška rečna čigra  [details]
Spanish charrán de Forster  [details]
Swedish kärrtärna  [details]
Turkish balıkçın  [details]
Turkish deniz kırlangıcı  [details]
Turkish sumru  [details]
Ukrainian Крячок Форстера  [details]
Welsh môr-wennol Forster  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North America [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (475 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159057
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Sterna forsteri Nuttall, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159057 on 2013-05-19
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