Species Gygis alba (Sparrman, 1786)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sterna alba Sparrman, A. 1786. Museum Carlsonianum. In quo Novas et Selectas Aves, Coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, Suasu et Sumtibus Generosissimi Possessoris. Fasc. 1. No. 11. Holmiae : Typographia Regia. [11].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Ascension Island
• Saint Helena
• Seychelles

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales
  • Norfolk Island
  • Queensland
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Kiribati
• New Zealand
  • Kermadec Islands
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Palau
• Pitcairn Islands
• Samoa (American)
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu
• Western Samoa

Neotropical Region

• Trinidad and Tobago

Oriental Region

• Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral cay, lagoon, offshore waters, pelagic.

 

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. (White Tern)

 

History of changes

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