Taxon data and maps: Sterna paradisaea

Taxonomy details

Context

Taxon Id
797
Common Name
Arctic Tern
Authority
Pontoppidan,1763
Naming Status
Currently accepted name
Status
Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
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Taxon has been resolved to the rank Species.

Hierarchy

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Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Laridae
Genus
Sterna

Data and maps

Observation / specimen counts

There are 878 observations / specimens of this taxa in the database from 1983 to 2006.

878 species distribution records for this taxa are published to GBIF, OBIS

826 species distribution records are south of 60 deg south.

Habitat domain - Marine

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Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean Details 878 data pts

Distribution map

Polar projection map of the occurrence records of this taxa.

Warning - Validation efforts are incomplete. There may be a few spurious positions that require editing.