Subspecies Sterna (Sterna) hirundo longipennis Nordmann, 1835

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sterna longipennis Nordmann, A. von 1835. Naturhistorischer Atlas Vögel. In, Erman, A. (ed.). Reise um die Erde, durch Nord-Asien und die beiden Oceanie. Berlin. [Date published Aug 1835] [17].
• Sterna striata yorki Mathews, G.M. 1914. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2(5): 83-107 [Date published 24 Sep 1914] [86].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 746510 ♀, Cape York, Queensland, Australia.

  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 [33].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, freshwater swamp, offshore waters, open beach, rock reef, saltfield.

 

History of changes

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