Arctic Tern
Arctic Tern
Here the details of the Arctic Tern named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sterna Paradisaea Dansk.Atlas 1 p.622
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Laridae / Sterna
Taxonomy Code: arcter
Type Locality: No type locality = Christiansoe, Denmark, ex Brünnich, Orn. Boreal., 1764, p. 46.
Author: Pontoppidan
Publish Year: 1763
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
STERNA
(Laridae; Ϯ Common Tern S. hirundo) Old English names Stern, Stearn or Starn for the Black Tern (cf. Swedish Tärna; Norwegian Terne); "70. STERNA. Rostrum edentulum, subulatum, rectum, acutum apice compressiusculo. Nares lineares." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sterna Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 137. Type, by tautonymy, Sterna hirundo Linné (Sterna, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1934, II, 331). Linnaeus's Sterna comprised three species (S. stolida, S. Hirundo, S. nigra).
Var. Stenia, Terna.
Synon. Chelido, Gygisterna, Potamochelidon, Pseudosterna, Seena, Thalassaea.
sterna
Mod. L. sterna tern.
PARADISAEA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Greater Bird-of-Paradise P. apoda) Late L. paradisus paradise < Gr. παραδεισος paradeisos paradise, pleasure ground (of the Persian kings) < Old Persian pairi-daēza walled garden; Magellan’s sailors were told by Moluccan natives that the exotic birds-of-paradise came from heaven, being called ‘birds of god’ (see apoda); "51. PARADISÆA. Rostrum basi plumis tomentosis tectum. Pennæ hypochondriorum longiores." (Linnaeus 1758); "Paradisaea Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 110. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, p. 39), P. apoda Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 199). Linnaeus's Paradisaea comprised two species (P. apoda, P. regia) (Cracraft 1992, recognised fourteen phylogenetic species herein).
Var. Paradisea, Paradisia.
Synon. Manucodiata, Samalia, Trichoparadisea, Uranornis.
paradisaea / paradisaeus
Med. L. paradiseus of paradise, paradisean, ethereal < Late L. paradisus paradise.
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)