| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Sterna Linnaeus, 1758 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Thalasseus elegans (Gambel, 1849)
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| Sources | |
basis of record: Woehler E.J. (compiler) 2006. Species list prepared for SCAR/IUCN/BirdLife International Workshop on Antarctic Regional Seabird Populations, March 2005, Cambridge, UK. (look up in IMIS) [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]
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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Danish |
Aztekerterne |
[details] |
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Dutch |
Californische kuifstern |
[details] |
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English |
elegant tern |
[details] |
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French |
sterne élégante |
[details] |
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German |
Schmuckseeschwalbe |
[details] |
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Lithuanian |
grakščioji žuvėdra |
[details] |
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Polish |
rybitwa kalifornijska |
[details] |
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Russian |
крачка элегантная |
[details] |
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Slovenian |
prelestna čigra |
[details] |
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Spanish |
charrán elegante |
[details] |
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Turkish |
kara kanatlı bataklık kırlangıcı |
[details] |
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Ukrainian |
Крячок елегантний |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Eastern Central Pacific [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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| Links | | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (134 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225959 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | [Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] |
| | | Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Sterna elegans Gambel, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225959 on 2013-05-23 |
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