Subspecies Sternula albifrons sinensis (Gmelin, 1789)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sterna sinensis Gmelin, J.F. 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1(2) 501-1032 pp. [publication dated 1788] [608].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Sina [China].
• Sternula inconspicua Masters, 1876.

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM(MMUS) O.45780 ♂ (Macleay Museum no. BT14), Muddy Bay, Cape York, Queensland, Australia; AM(MMUS) O.45781 ♀, Muddy Bay, Cape York, Queensland, Australia; AM(MMUS) O.45782 ♀, Muddy Bay, Cape York, Queensland, Australia; AM(MMUS) O.45783 ♀, Muddy Bay, Cape York, Queensland, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [5].

 

Generic Combinations

• Sternula albifrons sinensis (Gmelin, 1789). —
  Peters, J.L. 1934. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 2 xvii 401 pp. [340]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal Australia from Shark Bay, WA through north and eastern Australia to Spencer Gulf, SA, including TAS

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal salt marsh, estuary, lake, offshore waters, open beach, salt marsh.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	02-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)