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Sterna hirundinacea Lesson, 1831 
AphiaID: 225979

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 Zuidamerikaanse visdief  [details]
English South American tern  [details]
French sterne hirundinacée  [details]
German Falklandseeschwalbe  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution South America [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Image 
South American Tern (Sterna hirundinacea)
South American Tern (Sterna hirundinacea)
added on 2007-02-06 - author: Michael Schepard
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-01-25 09:30:47
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225979
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 hirundinacea Lesson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225979 on 2013-05-19
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