Subspecies Gygis alba candida (Gmelin, 1789)

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CAVS: 8817

Subspecies Gygis alba candida (Gmelin, 1789)

Sterna candida Gmelin, 1789.
Type data:

Syntype(s) NHMW NMW 48.968 Unsexed, Otaheite [Tahiti]; NHMW NMW 48.969 Unsexed (Type locality elsewhere given as Christmas Island), Otaheite [Tahiti].
Gygis alba royana Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [443].
Type data:
Lectotype AMNH 747733 unsexed (Original lable missing), Kermadec Island, New Zealand.
Secondary source:
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 [38].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales
- Norfolk Island
- Queensland
Federated States of Micronesia
New Zealand
- Kermadec Islands
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Samoa (American)
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Western Samoa

Ecological Descriptors

Coral cay, lagoon, offshore waters, pelagic.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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