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Chlidonias niger (black tern)
Taxonomy
Sterna nigra was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Chlidonias.
It was recombined as Hydrochelidon nigra by Shufeldt (1891) and Hay (1902); it was recombined as Chlidonias nigra by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940) and Howard (1946); it was recombined as Chlidonias niger by Wetmore (1956) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Hydrochelidon nigra by Shufeldt (1891) and Hay (1902); it was recombined as Chlidonias nigra by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940) and Howard (1946); it was recombined as Chlidonias niger by Wetmore (1956) and Clements et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
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Chlidonias niger Linnaeus 1758 [black tern]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Chlidonias niger (197938) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Oregon) | Chlidonias nigra (93251) | |
| Holocene | India | Chlidonias niger (177353) |