Species Sterna (Sterna) striata Gmelin, 1789

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• Sterna striata 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] [609].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, New Zealand.
• Sterna melanorhyncha Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould. [pl 26] [junior secondary homonym of Sternula melanorhyncha Lesson, 1847 in Sterna Linnaeus, 1758, and unavailable].
• Sterna velox Gould, J. 1843. [Untitled - thirty new species of Australian birds...]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 131-140 [Date published February 1843] [139] [junior primary homonym of Sterna velox Cretzschmar in Rüppel, 1827 (= Sterna bergii Lichtenstein, 1823), and unavailable].
• Sterna striata incerta Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [208].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 746511 ♂, New South Wales coast, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Peters, J.L. 1934. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 2 xvii 401 pp. [335] (footnote); Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306 [33].
• Sterna sanctipauli Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 629 pp. [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] [399] [replacement name for S. melanorhyncha].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Sterna striata incerta Mathews, 1912 [possible subspecies]. —
  del Hoyo, J. & Collar, N.J. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International illustrated checklist of the birds of the world. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Barcelona : Lynx Edicions pp. 903. [468]

 

Introduction

Three subspecies sometimes recognised including S. striata aucklandorum Mathews 1929 restricted to NZ, and S. s. incerta Mathews 1912 and S. s. striata occurring in Australia. The validity of these taxa requires confirmation and we treat the species as monotypic until such work can be completed.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Migratory between Australia and New Zealand, primarily occurs from southern QLD to eastern SA and TAS, also Norfolk Island, Tasman Sea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, offshore waters, rock reef, rocky island.

 

Common Name References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994. The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp. (White-fronted Tern)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	03-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)