Snowy-crowned Tern / Sterna trudeaui
WBN 
Snowy-crowned Tern
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sterna Trudeaui BirdsAm. 4 pl.409 fig.2
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Laridae / Sterna
Taxonomy Code: truter
Type Locality: Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey!
Author: Audubon
Publish Year: 1838
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.
trudeaui / trudeauii
Dr James de Berty Trudeau (1817-1887) US physician, explorer, collector, painter (Sterna, syn. Zenaida asiatica).
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)
