Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Sterna Linnaeus, 1758

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Genus Sterna Linnaeus, 1758

Distribution

States

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


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

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Macquarie Island Province (24), 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), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.), Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Seychelles
  • South Africa

Antarctic Region

  • Macquarie Island (Aust. Terr.)
  • Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
    • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, NW oceanic, S oceanic, SE oceanic, W oceanic
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • Lord Howe Island
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Norfolk Island
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: S Gulfs
    • Tasmania
    • Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands
    • Victoria: SE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Fiji
  • Indonesia
    • Irian Jaya
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
    • Auckland Is.
    • Campbell Is.
  • Papua New Guinea
    • D'Entrecasteaux Ils
  • Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

  • Mexico

Neotropical Region

  • Falkland Islands

Oriental Region

  • Andaman Islands
  • China (People's Republic)
  • Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)
  • Indonesia
  • Kampuchea (Cambodia)
  • Laos
  • Malaysia
    • (Mainland)
  • Nepal
  • Philippines
  • Ryukyu Islands (= Nansei Shoto)
  • Singapore
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam

Palaearctic Region

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)