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Biodiversity - SCAR EBA program

Taxon Profile

The biodiversity database holds terrestrial and freshwater Antarctic and sub-Antarctic flora and fauna in support of the SCAR Life Sciences programme EBA (Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic). For further details, see the EBA website. This database also holds marine data from the Australian Antarctic Programme.

Sterna vittata Taxon Id 25546
Common Name Antarctic Tern
Authority Gmelin,1789
Naming Status Currently accepted name
Status
Found in the Antarctica/sub-Antarctic or Southern Ocean (see map of extents)
Taxon has been resolved to the rank Species.
Use links to drilldown to other taxa via rank
Kingdom » Animalia Animals
Phylum » Chordata Chordates
Class » Aves Birds
Order » Charadriiformes
Family » Laridae Gull and Terns
Genus » Sterna

iMAGEantarctica 3394D3
Location: Macquarie Island
Photographer: McMahon, Clive
Date: 1997
© AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1997


Taxonomy

Species belongs to the following lists - Follow link on List Name to see list of all species.

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