Subspecies Sterna (Gygisterna) sumatrana sumatrana Raffles, 1822

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sterna sumatrana Raffles, T.S. 1822. [...]. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13 [329].
• Sterna sumatrana kempi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [210].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 746595 unsexed, Torres Strait, 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 [34].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., N coast, NE coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Indonesia
• New Caledonia

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• China (People's Republic)
• Ryukyu Islands (= Nansei Shoto)

Ecological Descriptors

Lagoon, offshore waters, open beach, rocky island, tidal sandbar.

 

History of changes

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