Cabot's tern

Cabot's tern
In non-breeding plumage, Venice Beach, Florida
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Suborder: Lari
Family: Sternidae
Genus: Thalasseus
Species: T. sandvicensis
Trinomial name
Thalasseus sandvicensis acuflavidus
(Cabot, 1847)
Synonyms
  • Thalasseus acuflavidus
  • Thalasseus sandvicensis eurygnatha

Cabot's tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis acuflavidus) is a bird in the family Sternidae sometimes separated from the Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis). It has since been shown to be more closely related to the elegant tern (Thalasseus elegans).[1] The genus name is from Ancient Greek Thalasseus, "fisherman" from thalassa, "sea". The specific acuflavida is Latin from acus, "needle", and flavidus, "yellowish".[2] The IOC recognizes the bird as distinct, but most other taxonomists, including both committees of the AOU, consider it conspecific with the Sandwich tern.[3]

Distribution and subspecies

The species is widely distributed in the Americas.
There are two subspecies:

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References

  1. "Coursers, noddies, gulls, terns, auks and sandgrouse". International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  2. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 31, 383. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. "57th supplement of the AOU". American Ornithologists Union. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
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