Species Sternula albifrons (Pallas, 1764)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sterna albifrons Pallas, P.S. 1764. Adumbratiunculae In: Vroeg, A. Catalogue raisonne' d'une collection supérieurement belle d'oiseaux, tant exotiques qu'Euroe'ens, de quadrupedes et d'insectes...; collection qu'on offre sux amateurs entiére & à un prix raisonnable, jusqu'au 22 septembre de cette année. La Haye xvi + 49, 7 pp. [6].

Generic Combinations

• Sternula albifrons (Pallas, 1764). —
  Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [373]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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)

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. (Little Tern)

History of changes