Thalasseus Bernsteini Bird
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Thalasseus Bernsteini Bird
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Latin Name:
Protonym: Sterna bernsteini Mus.Hist.Pays-BasRev.Meth.Crit.Coll. livr.5 Sternae no.24 p.9
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Laridae / Thalasseus
Taxonomy Code: chcter2
Type Locality: Kaou, eastern coast of Halmahera.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1864
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
THALASSEUS
(Laridae; Ϯ Sandwich Tern T. sandvicensis) Gr. θαλασσευς thalasseus fisherman < θαλασσα thalassa, θαλασσης thalassēs sea; "140. Gattung. Thalasseus. 3 358. caspia. 359. cantiaca. 360. anglica. ... 3 Unterscheidendes Merkmal der Gattung, der verhältnißmäßig größere und dickere Schnabel." (Boie 1822); "Genus Thalasseus Fr. Boie l. c. ... 1. Th. cantiacus (Turopa [sic]) ... 2. Th. velox. (Africa)" (Wagler 1832); "Thalasseus Boie, Isis von Oken, 1822, Bd. 1, col. 563. Type, by subsequent designation, "Th. cantiacus" = Sterna cantiaca Gmelin = Sterna sandvicensis Latham (Wagler, Isis von Oken, 1832, col. 1225)." (Peters 1934, II, 341).
Synon. Actochelidon, Pelecanopus, Thalassema.
● (syn. Hydroprogne Ϯ Caspian Tern H. caspia) "THALASSEUS, Boie, 1822. ... (Sterna caspia, Pall.)" (G. Gray 1855). Var. Thallaseus.
bernsteini / bernsteinii
Heinrich Agathon Bernstein (1828-1865) German physician, zoologist, collector (Centropus, subsp. Chalcopsitta atra, syn. Edolisoma schisticeps, syn. Eos bornea, subsp. Erythropitta rufiventris, syn. Gerygone magnirostris cobana, syn. Megaloprepia formosa, Megapodius, syn. Symposiachrus trivirgatus nigrimentum, Thalasseus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
