Snowy-crowned Tern

Snowy-crowned Tern / Sterna trudeaui

Snowy-crowned Tern

Here the details of the Snowy-crowned Tern named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sterna trudeaui
Protonym:  Sterna Trudeaui BirdsAm. 4 pl.409 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae /
Taxonomy Code:  truter
Type Locality:  Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey!
Author:  
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  

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. SteniaTerna.
Synon. Chelido, Gygisterna, Potamochelidon, Pseudosterna, Seena, Thalassaea.

sterna
Mod. L. sterna tern.

trudeaui / trudeauii
Dr James de Berty Trudeau (1817-1887) US physician, explorer, collector, painter (Sterna, syn. Zenaida asiatica).