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Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Aves
order
Charadriiformes
family
Laridae
genus
Sterna
species
Sterna hirundo

Name

Synonyms
Sterna fluviatilis Naumann, 1839
Homonyms
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
Common names
Andorinha-do-mar-commun in Portuguese
Charrán común in Spanish
Charrán común in Spanish
Charrán común in Spanish
Charrán común in Spanish
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common Tern in English
Common tern in language.
Common/Arctic Tern in English
Common/Arctic Tern in English
Common/Arctic Tern in English
Common/Forster'S Tern in English
Common/Forster'S Tern in English
Common/Forster's Tern in English
Fjordterne in Danish
Fjordterne in Danish
Fjordterne in Danish
Flossséischmuewel in Luxembourgish
Flussseeschwalbe in language.
Flussseeschwalbe in German
Flussseeschwalbe in German
Flußseeschwalbe in German
Flußseeschwalbe in German
Gaviotín Común in Spanish
Gaviotín Común in Spanish
Gewone Seeswael (Gewone Sterretjie) in Afrikaans
Makrellterne in Norwegian
Rybák obecný in Czech
Sterna comune in Italian
Sterne pierregarin in French
Sterne pierregarin in French
Sterne pierregarin in French
Sterne pierregarin in French
Sterne pierregarin in French
Visdief in Dutch
common tern in English
common tern in English
common tern in English
common tern in English
common tern in English
common tern in English
fisktärna in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. American Ornithologists' Union, 2006: Forty-seventh supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. The Auk, vol. 123, no. 3. 926-936.
  2. Anders Pape Møller,Magnhagen,C.,Ulfstrand,A.,Ulfstrand,S. (1995) Phenotypic quality and molt in the barn swallow, Hirundo rustica
  3. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  4. Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p.
  5. Beugnet,F.,Gadat,R.,Chardonnet,L. (1996) Parasitologic note: parasites of notu (Ducula goliath, Columbiform). about some observations http://phthiraptera.info/node/40236
  6. Braverman,A. M. (1996) Issues involved in the decision to end infertility treatment: When is enough enough?
  7. Brett R. Moyer,Wagenbach,Gary E. (1995) Sunning by Black Noddies (Anous minutus) may kill chewing lice (Quadraceps hopkinsi)
  8. Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2001). Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs: Brussel, Belgium. 48 pp.
  9. Dickinson, E. C., and J. V. Remsen Jr., eds., 2013: null. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, 4th Edition, Vol. 1 Non-passerines. l + 461.
  10. Eagleson,J. S.,Thompson,D. R.,Rugg,D.,Boyle,R. (1995) Field efficacy of an ivermectin jetting fluid for control of the sheep body louse Bovicola (Damalinia) ovis in New Zealand http://phthiraptera.info/node/40226
  11. Echeverry-Galvis, M.A., O. Acevedo-Charry, J. E. Avendaño, C. Gómez, F.G. Stiles, F.A. Estela & A.M. Cuervo. 2022. Lista oficial de las aves de Colombia 2022: Adiciones, cambios taxonómicos y actualizaciones de estado. Ornitología Colombiana 22: 25-51 https://doi.org/10.59517/oc.e548
  12. Gallardo, J. C.; Macías, V.; Velarde, E. (2009). Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.</em> Pp. 1321–1342.
  13. Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright, 2006: null. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. ix + 259.
  14. Higgs,A. R. B.,Morcombe,P. W.,Hide,D. F.,Young,G. E.,Armstrong,E. W.,Millar,L. E. (1995) Settling of insecticide from dip wash mixed with dam water and zinc sulfate and used to control sheep lice (Bovicola ovis) http://phthiraptera.info/node/40219
  15. ITIS.gov 2023 from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) on-line database https://www.itis.gov
  16. Ibarra,Joanna,Stallbaumer,Manice (1995) Clinical efficacy of treatment for head lice - counting head lice by visual inspection flaws trials results http://phthiraptera.info/node/40230
  17. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 17 Addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the names of fifteen genera of the class Aves, the type species of each of which was determined by Linnean tautonymy (Direction supplementary to Opinion 16).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C(C.8), 89-112 (1955)
  18. King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554.
  19. Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,Galun,Rachel,Miller,Jacqueline,Ben-Ishai,Fiameta,Klaus,Sidney,Hemingway,Janet,Ioffe-Uspensky,Inna (1995) Permethrin resistance in the head louse Pediculus capitis from Israel http://phthiraptera.info/node/40221
  20. Levot,G. W. (1995) In Vivo synergism of cypermethrin by piperonyl butoxide in Bovicola ovis (L) (Phthiraptera, Trichodectidae) http://phthiraptera.info/node/40215
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