BeRMS taxon details

Sterna Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 137047

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Aves > Charadriiformes > Sternidae
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Genus
Parent Sternidae
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [details]

additional source: Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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 Species Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813
Species Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
Species Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763
Species Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787

Species Sterna albifrons Pallas, 1764 accepted as Sternula albifrons (Pallas, 1764)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137047
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2005-03-29 08:12:19Z  changed  Claus, Simon
  
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  Citation: BeRMS (2013). Sterna Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137047 on 2013-06-20
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