Species Thalasseus bengalensis (Lesson, 1831)

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CAVS: 0116

Species Thalasseus bengalensis (Lesson, 1831)

Lesser Crested Tern

Sterna bengalensis Lesson, R.P. 1831. Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux. Paris : F.G. Levrault Vol. 1 xxxii 659 pp., Vol. 2 (Atlas) xii pp. [621].
Sterna media Horsfield, T. 1821. Systematic arrangement and description of birds from the island of Java. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 133-200 [199] [junior primary homonym of Sterna media Vieillot, 1820, and unavailable].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1880.1.1.3451 Immature, unsexed, Java, Indonesia.
Sterna affinis Cretzschmar, PJ 1827. Atlas zu der reise im nördlichen Afrika, von Eduard Rüppell. 1. Abth. Zoologie. Hrsg. von der Senkenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 5 volumes. Frankfurt am Main : Gedruckt und in commission bei H. L. Brönner. [23] [junior primary homonym of Sterna affinis Horsfield, 1821 (= Sterna nilotica nilotica Gmelin, 1789), and unavailable].

Distribution

States

Queensland, 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)

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., N coast, NE coast, NW coast
Fiji
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

Indonesia

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Coral cay, offshore waters, open beach, rock reef.

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. (Lesser Crested Tern)

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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