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Sterna caspia Pallas, 1770
Taxonomic Serial No.: 176924

Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Species
	Synonym(s):	Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)
	Common Name(s):	Caspian Tern [English]
		Charrán caspia [Spanish]
		sterne caspienne [French]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia -- Animal, animals, animaux
	Phylum	Chordata -- chordates, cordado, cordés
	Subphylum	Vertebrata -- vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés
	Class	Aves -- Birds, oiseaux
	Order	Ciconiiformes -- aigles, aigles pêcheurs, albatros, alcidés, Auks, cigognes, cormorans, éperviers, faucons, flamants, goélands, grèbes, Herons, hérons, huarts, huîtriers, ibis, Ibises, pélicans, Penguins, pétrels, pingouins, pluviers, Storks, totipalmés, tubinares
	Family	Laridae -- Auks, becs-en-ciseaux, goélands, guillemots, Guillemots, Gulls, labbes, mouettes, Murres, Puffins, sternes, Terns
	Subfamily	Sterninae
	Genus	Sterna Linnaeus, 1758 -- Typical Terns
	Species	Sterna caspia Pallas, 1770 -- Caspian Tern, Charrán caspia, sterne caspienne

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alan P. Peterson, M.D.
	Notes:	PO Box 1999 Walla Walla, Washington 99362-0999
	Reference for:	Sterna caspia

	Expert:	Richard C. Banks
	Notes:	Chief, Bird Section, U.S.G.S. - B.R.D. - P.W.R.C.
	Reference for:	Sterna caspia

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	CDP, database (version 1999)
	Acquired:	2003
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Caspian Tern [English], sterne caspienne [French]

	Source:	AOU Check-List (07-2005), website (version Jul-2005)
	Acquired:	2005
	Notes:	American Ornithologists' Union's "LIST OF THE 2,037 BIRD SPECIES (WITH SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES) KNOWN FROM THE A.O.U. CHECK-LIST AREA" (AOU Check-list, 7th edition, updated with Supplements 42-46), maintained at http://www.aou.org/
	Reference for:	Caspian Tern [English]

	Source:	Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)
	Acquired:	2001
	Notes:	CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)
	Reference for:	Charrán caspia [Spanish]

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Sterna caspia

	Source:	Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, website (version 1998)
	Acquired:	1998
	Notes:	Alan P. Peterson; http://www.zoonomen.net/
	Reference for:	Sterna caspia

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes
	Publication Date:	2003
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Page(s):
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:	As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998
	Reference for:	Sterna caspia

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Sterna caspia

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright
	Publication Date:	2006
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Birds of the World: Recommended English Names
	Page(s):	ix + 259
	Publisher:	Princeton University Press
	Publication Place:	Princeton, New Jersey, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-691-12827-8
	Notes:	Includes a CD-ROM with the full dataset
	Reference for:	Sterna caspia, Caspian Tern

Geographic Information


	Geographic Division:	North America

	Jurisdiction/Origin:	Alaska, Native
		Canada, Native
		Caribbean Territories, Native
		Continental US, Native
		Hawaii, Incidental

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Date Generated:
Sun Mar 15 2009 12:52:54 MDT