Forster's Tern

SCI Name:  Sterna forsteri
Protonym:  Sterna Forsteri Man.Orn.U.S.Can.ed.1 ed.1, 2 p.274
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae / Sterna
Taxonomy Code:  forter
Type Locality:  Banks of the Saskatchewan between Cumberland House and Lake Winnipeg, ex Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. Am., 2, 1831, p. 412.
Author:  Nuttall
Publish Year:  1834
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.

forsteri / forsterii / forsterorum
● Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798) German naturalist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his three-year voyage of discovery 1772-1775 (?syn. Aerodramus leucophaeus, syn. Chionis alba, ‡syn. Cyanoramphus zealandicus, syn. Ducula aurorae, syn. Ducula forsteni, syn. Ducula pacifica, syn. Gerygone flavolateralis, syn. Halobaena caerulea, syn. Hypotaenidia philippensis ecaudata, subsp. Larus novaehollandiae, syn. Pachyptila vittata, syn. Ptilinopus porphyraceus, Sterna, syn. Todiramphus sanctus vagans).
● Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798) and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster (1754-1794) German naturalist and artist respectively aboard Cook’s HMS Resolution voyage of discovery 1772-1775 (Aptenodytes, syn. Hymenolaimus malacorhynchus, syn. Macronectes giganteus, syn. Petroica macrocephala, syn. Ramphastos tucanus cuvieri (ex “Grand Toucan à gorge orange” of Levaillant 1806)).
● See: forsteni