WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Sterna virgata Cabanis, 1875

Sterna virgata Cabanis, 1875
AphiaID: 225962

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

Source

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]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	kerguelenstern	[details]
English	Kerguelen tern	[details]
French	Sterne de Kerguelen	[details]
German	Kerguelenseeschwalbe	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

South Indian Ocean [details]

Links

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS

Images

Kerguelen tern (Sterna virgata) 1
added on 2007-02-06 - author: Peter Ryan
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-02-10 13:45:10

Kerguelen tern (Sterna virgata) 2
added on 2007-02-06 - author: Peter Ryan
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-02-10 13:45:43

Sterna virgata
added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-02-10 13:45:26

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225962

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2006-04-20 12:16:00Z	created	Charbonneau, Danny
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z	checked	Adriaens, Peter

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Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Sterna virgata Cabanis, 1875. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225962 on 2013-05-19

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