Subspecies Onychoprion fuscatus nubilosa (Sparrman, 1788)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sterna nubilosa Sparrman, A 1788. Museum Carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves, coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, sussu et sumtibus generisissimi possessoris, exhibet Andreas Sparrman. 4 parts. Holmiae : Typographia Regia lv + 100 pl. [63].
• Sterna melanura Gould, 1838.
• Sterna gouldi Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1845. Novitiae ad synopsin avium, Natatores, oder Schwimmvögel. [4]p. Praktisch-gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Vögel des Inund Auslandes; Kupfersammlung. 1. Th., mit 408 Abbildungen der Schwimmvögel. Checkllist to the Mathews Ornithological Collection of the National Library of Australia. Anon. 1966. 16 pp. [tab xxii, fig. 829].
• Onychoprion fuscatus kermadeci Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [55].
• Onychoprion fuscatus glauerti Mathews, 1922.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western half of Australia from off SW coast of WA to off central NT; tropical, pelagic, nesting on offshore islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Coral cay, offshore waters, rocky island, tidal sandbar.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	25-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
26-Nov-2015	LARIDAE Rafinesque, 1815	12-Dec-2019	MODIFIED
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED